Enhance performance and flexibility of the fastest generation LTO tape drives with exclusive ATTO products, features and technologies.

ATTO Technology, Inc., a global leader of network, storage connectivity and infrastructure solutions for data-intensive computing environments for over 30 years, announced today support for LTO-9 tape technology across its product lines.

Linear Tape-Open generation nine (LTO-9) technology improves upon the prior generation with more storage capacity and transfer speed. LTO-9 Ultrium tape stores up to 18TB uncompressed and 45TB compressed which is 50% greater capacity than LTO-8. Transfer speeds reach up to 400MB/s uncompressed and up to 1,000 MB/s compressed. LTO-9 drives are backward compatible with LTO-8 media.

ATTO supports backup and archive processes end-to-end with a full range of connectivity solutions for every environment. Industry-exclusive ATTO features and technologies allow for quicker and safer backups plus provide design flexibility otherwise unavailable to system designers.

ATTO Advanced Data Streaming™, built into all ATTO HBAs, bridges and Thunderbolt™ devices, manages latency to provide controlled acceleration for smooth data streaming to maintain the highest consistent performance.

When backing up data, write speed is the most important metric. ATTO SpeedWrite™ keeps paths between a host and ATTO XstreamCORE® intelligent Bridge filled with data to boost write performance by up to 25% over a direct connect SAS HBA connection to tape drives.

ATTO ThunderLink® Thunderbolt adapters and ATTO ExpressSAS® GT SAS HBAs deliver the fastest available connection to LTO-9 SAS tape drives. Featuring a full range of port configurations and driver support, easy-to-use features, extensive industry qualifications and integrates with up to 16 tape drives per bridge.

ATTO XstreamCORE intelligent Bridges enable the addition of direct-attached SAS tape to shared Ethernet networks, providing a flexible and easy way to scale and remotely share LTO-9 tape devices.