IBM sets new standards for the Open Tape Market with its new family of Ultrium Tape Solutions. Ultrium is the first product from the Linear Tape Open Consortium and is an open, independently controlled and certified tape standard. It is designed for the server, Network Attached Storage and Storage Area Network environment.By fully leveraging advanced Linear Tape-Open (LTO) technology, the IBM Ultrium Scalable Tape Library provides an ideal solution for cost-effectively handling a wide range of backup, archive, and disaster recovery data storage needs. The breakthrough reliability, capacity and performance of LTO offers an excellent alternative to DLT, 8mm, 4mm, or 1/4-inch tape drives for streaming data applications such as backup.