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All-new LTO-10 tape technology platform delivers a strategic leap in density, resilience, and sustainability—positioning tape as essential infrastructure for AI-driven data growth and long-term retention
BOULDER, Colo., May 28, 2025 – Spectra Logic®, a global leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced enterprise-wide support for LTO-10 tape technology across its full portfolio of tape libraries*, including the Spectra® TFinity®, Spectra T950, Spectra Cube™, and Spectra Stack models. LTO-10 introduces a new architectural foundation for tape, delivering 30 terabytes (TB) of native capacity and 400 MB/s transfer speed per cartridge—advancing the Spectra strategic vision to deliver scalable, sustainable, and cyber-resilient perpetual archival infrastructure for long-term data preservation.
FUJIFILM India has entered a strategic distribution partnership with Spectra Logic to offer enterprise-grade tape storage solutions in India. This collaboration enables Indian businesses to access secure, scalable, and energy-efficient data management technologies, including Spectra's advanced tape libraries and software.
NEW DELHI, India and BOULDER, CO – April 24, 2025 – FUJIFILM India a wholly owned subsidiary of FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation, Tokyo a diversified conglomerate whose focus stretches from imaging to healthcare, electronics and business innovation, today announced a strategic distribution partnership with Spectra Logic®, a global leader in data management and tape-based storage solutions.
Flexible, extensible media archiving platform delivers modular, subscription-based solution for media professionals to easily manage, archive and retrieve media assets across storage systems and clouds
BOULDER, Colo., April 1, 2025 – Spectra Logic®, a global leader in data management and storage solutions, today introduced Rio Media Suite™, a subscription-based media archiving platform (MAP) that offers media professionals a simple, modular and affordable solution to manage, archive and retrieve media assets across a broad range of on-premises, hybrid and cloud storage systems.Spectra Logic Transforms Tape Connectivity with Industry-First 24G Optical SAS Switch
BOULDER, Colo., January 28, 2025 – Spectra Logic®, a global leader in data management and storage solutions, has introduced the Spectra® OSW-2400 Optical SAS Switch, a groundbreaking innovation in data center tape storage connectivity. Through the use of active optical cables, the OSW-2400 switch enables connection distances up to 100 meters, enabling SAS fabrics to cover data center floor spaces up to 10,000 m2 (107,639 sq ft), connect between building floors, or extend to nearby buildings, increasing deployment flexibility and simplifying connectivity between servers and tape storage systems.End-to-end service simplifies and accelerates asset migrations from legacy systems to modern, cost-effective archive infrastructures
BOULDER, Colo., October 8, 2024 – Spectra Logic®, a global leader in data management and storage solutions, today announced the launch of Rio Media Migration Services, a comprehensive professional service offering designed to seamlessly transition digital media assets from outdated media asset management systems to modern object-based archive infrastructures.Integrated app delivers seamless content management and archiving within Media Composer for enhanced workflows, speed and efficiency
BOULDER, Colo., September 11, 2024 – Spectra Logic®, a global leader in data management and data storage solutions, today introduced RioPanel™ software for Avid® Media Composer® environments, an innovative content management and archiving application that seamlessly integrates into the Media Composer user interface. The new RioPanel application enhances media production workflows by allowing users to manage, archive, and access Avid and non-Avid content directly within the Media Composer user interface.On-premises and cloud-integrated storage solution offers scalable, cost-efficient, and secure long-term data retention
BOULDER, Colo., July 9, 2024 – Spectra Logic, a global leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced an integration of Spectra® technologies with Cohesity to deliver a comprehensive data protection and archival solution. This new offering leverages the Cohesity Data Cloud platform, Spectra Logic® BlackPearl® object-based disk and object-based tape solutions to provide organizations with an efficient, reliable, and cost-effective data archiving strategy.
Strategic partnership delivers easy-to-consume, highly cost-effective tape-based solution to archive data at scale without the need for special skills, large capital investments or on-premises infrastructure
BOULDER, Colo. and TUSTIN, Calif., May 14, 2024 – Spectra Logic®, a global leader in data management and data storage solutions, and Geyser Data, an innovative provider of sustainable cloud archive solutions, today announced a strategic partnership to jointly create and deliver the industry’s first tape-as-a-service (TaaS) offering.
Next-generation LumOS software to power new TFinity Plus and Spectra Cube libraries
BOULDER, Colo. April 9, 2024 – Spectra Logic®, a global leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced the introduction of Spectra® LumOS library management software and the addition of two members to its family of enterprise tape storage solutions. The new members are the TFinity® Plus enterprise library and Spectra Cube™ cloud-optimized library.New cloud-optimized library brings the highest versatility, ease of use and cost-effectiveness to on-prem, hybrid cloud and IaaS environments
BOULDER, Colo. April 9, 2024 – Spectra Logic®, a global leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced the addition of the Spectra Cube™ tape library to the company’s family of enterprise tape storage solutions. Designed for clouds and optimized for ease of use, the new Spectra Cube library can be quickly deployed, dynamically scaled and easily serviced without tools or downtime.On-premises tape storage solution offers Amazon S3 Glacier-compatible option for cold data storage with significant savings compared to public cloud
BOULDER, Colo. February 6, 2024 – Spectra Logic®, a global leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced it has validated its On-Prem Glacier solutions for deployment in NetApp StorageGRID® object-based storage environments. The new combination creates a hybrid cloud storage infrastructure optimized for preserving large amounts of data over extended periods of time. With this solution, inactive data may be tiered to object-based tape storage, providing greater scalability, robust security and substantial cost savings compared to public cloud options.
Spectra® TFinity® library becomes the world’s largest tape storage system as it breaks the multi-exabyte barrier for storing uncompressed data.
BOULDER, Colo. – Spectra Logic, a global leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced support for the IBM® TS1170 tape drive in its enterprise-class libraries. The incorporation of this latest generation of IBM tape drive and its corresponding media brings unprecedented new levels of storage density and capacity to Spectra Logic® TFinity® ExaScale, T950 and T950v libraries.
BRACKNELL, UK – Spectra Logic, a global leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced that it has partnered with Titan, a specialist distributor offering end-to-end data management solutions and cybersecurity services. The relationship, which spans the EMEA region, will leverage Titan’s knowledge of and track record in the data management industry to further broaden Spectra’s reseller base.
Combined Data Management and Storage Solutions Represent Game-Changing High Computing Performance and Data Availability to Accelerate Innovation and Business Success
BOULDER, Colo. and MELBOURNE, Australia – Arcitecta, a creative and innovative data management software company, and Spectra Logic, a leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced that they have teamed to deliver two groundbreaking solutions that simplify data lifecycle management and accelerate performance speed, innovation, and business success. The Arcitecta Mediaflux + Spectra BlackPearl NAS solution provides high-performance scale-out NAS and the Arcitecta Mediaflux + Spectra BlackPearl Object Storage solution provides archive economics, high availability, enterprise-grade data protection and massive cost savings.
SLAC Expects Their Total Storage Needs to Reach Upwards of Two Exabytes by 2033
BOULDER, Colo. - Spectra Logic, a leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced that the company deployed an 18-frame Spectra® TFinity® ExaScale Tape Library with LTO-9 tape drives and media at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, CA. SLAC develops and implements some of the world’s most advanced scientific tools for exploring how the universe works at the biggest, smallest and fastest scales. Operated by Stanford University for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, SLAC pushes the frontiers of knowledge and drives discoveries that benefit humankind.
New Spectra Digital Archive Solution Seamlessly Integrates Storage Software and Hardware to Economically Safeguard Data for Decades on a Mix of Storage Targets
BOULDER, Colo. – Spectra Logic, a leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced a modern archive solution for organizations that must manage and preserve massive amounts of data for long-term retention purposes. The new solution, called Spectra Digital Archive, is powered by Spectra StorCycle®, an enterprise software designed to easily and cost-effectively archive data at scale. Spectra Digital Archive enables organizations to manage and archive terabytes to petabytes of unstructured data, digitally preserving that data on any combination of disk, tape and cloud, without sacrificing reliability or data availability.Spectra’s Vail multi-cloud data management software enables customers to take full advantage of Wasabi’s low-cost, fast and reliable cloud storage on demand.
BOULDER, Colo. – Spectra Logic, a leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced a partnership with Wasabi Technologies, the hot cloud company, that integrates Wasabi cloud storage with the Spectra Vail® unified data management solution. With the integration, Spectra Vail customers can now take advantage of Wasabi’s low-cost storage service, with no fees for egress or API requests, to further optimize data storage costs and accessibility across cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
Spectra Vail Distributed Multi-Cloud Data Management Software Lauded for Data Management Product Innovation
BOULDER, Colo. – Spectra Logic, a leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced that the company and its solutions won 12 top product and corporate awards from prestigious industry and media organizations.Spectra’s hybrid cloud storage solution enables customers to take advantage of S3 applications while providing fast recovery of frequently accessed data
BOULDER, Colo. – Spectra Logic, a leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced that its Spectra BlackPearl S3 solution has attained Veeam Ready qualification in both the Object and Object with Immutability categories. Spectra’s BlackPearl solution meets Veeam’s high standards for compatibility and performance as an S3-compatible object storage target for customers using Veeam Backup & Replication™ v11. With this designation, Veeam customers can be assured that Spectra’s BlackPearl S3 meets Veeam’s requirements as an object storage target, including immutability with Object Lock, enabling on-premises hybrid cloud storage that delivers S3 interoperability, scalability and cost efficiency.
BOULDER, Colo. – Spectra Logic, a global leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced that its customer, EPCC, has deployed two four-frame Spectra TFinity ExaScale Tape Libraries with LTO-8 tape drives and media to provide long-term archive and storage resources for the Edinburgh International Data Facility’s full range of data services.
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