Ten years plus four million RDX units equals 1.5
Exabytes of lightning-fast backups and restores
Tandberg Data, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sphere 3D Corp
(NASDAQ:ANY), today announced a milestone that has been a decade in
the making. More than 4 million RDX products have been sold by the
company and its OEM partners – representing a cumulative capacity
in excess of 1.5 Exabytes of storage. For comparison, 1 Exabyte of
storage is estimated to equal 100,000 times the printed material,
or up to 3,000 times all forms of content contained in the US
Library of Congress.1
Tandberg’s patented RDX® technology, a disk-based
removable storage format for backup, archive and disaster
recovery, is an example of unprecedented innovation and strong
brand equity among technical products. At the end of 2006, Tandberg
Data created a new era in backup and restore capabilities when it
introduced the first RDX QuikStor™ drives with RDX cartridges. In
the decade since, RDX products have been recognized by customers
and press for technical leadership, security and reliability in
long-term storage, archive and backup.
“RDX technology has been a very important part of our overall
backup and recovery portfolio for Hewlett Packard Enterprise
because it is so reliable and easy for our customers to use,” said
Doug Cirruzzo, Category Manager from HPE. “Unlike other comparable
technologies that have now disappeared from the market, the RDX
solution has continued to offer a high level of effectiveness and
usability while maintaining the technological leadership required
by dynamic IT environments. We congratulate Tandberg Data on its
10th anniversary and look forward to continuing our partnership for
decades to come.”
Today’s RDX removable disk-based technology provides
lightning-fast backup and restore with a durable and ruggedized
form factor. The RDX product family delivers cost-efficient,
long-term storage and archive solutions to small and medium-sized
businesses (SMB) with growing data storage needs. It
combines the portability and reliability of tape-based
backup with the speed and simplicity of a
hard disk drive. Ruggedized RDX cartridges are
shockproof, can sustain a one-meter drop onto a concrete floor, are
protected against electro static discharge events and support an
archival lifetime of more than ten years.
“We are excited to celebrate this successful milestone of RDX
technology, crafted from our combined history of innovation and
performance reliability,” said Randy Gast, President of Storage and
COO for Sphere 3D. “The past 10 years could not have been possible
without the dedication and consistency of our employees, partners
and customers. We look forward to continue working together to
pursue the growing demand that we see in areas like professional
workflow, archive solutions, and hybrid clouds, as well as from
vertical markets like media and entertainment.”
“The Tandberg team is delighted to celebrate this remarkable 10
year milestone of RDX technology in the long-term storage, archive
and backup market. With more than 4 million devices deployed
worldwide, RDX has shown leadership in the area of removable and
transportable business-grade media,” said Hugo Bergmann, product
line manager RDX storage and software solutions at Tandberg Data.
It’s an honor that RDX has been utilized and trusted by
hundreds of thousands of businesses using it for daily storage and
archiving of critical business data.”
For information about RDX, please see visit our commemorative
10th anniversary website at this link and check out a recent blog
post at this link giving more details on RDX technology’s impact on
the storage industry over the years.
About RDX Technology
The patented RDX series provides scalability,
centralized management, is encryption and duplication capable, and
reliability for backup, archive, data interchange and disaster
recovery. RDX provides enterprise performance and fast access, with
transfer rates of up to 1188 GB per hour and capacities up to 4TB
per cartridge, plus future expansion to larger capacity media
enabled by Sphere 3D’s breakthrough RDX+ technology while
maintaining the full backward compatibility to legacy RDX
products.
Tandberg Data’s RDX QuikStor is available as an external desktop
or internal server drive with SATA III, USB 3.0 or USB3+
connectivity. RDX QuikStation™ 4 and RDX QuikStation 8 are
rackmount and removable disk appliances for SMBs, offering 1 GbE or
10 GbE iSCSI connectivity and an online capacity of up to 32 TB.
RDX HDD media are available in the range between 500 GB and 4 TB,
RDX SSD media up to 256 GB and RDX WORM media with 500 GB and 1 TB.
All RDX media capacities are fully forward and backward
compatible.
About Tandberg Data
Tandberg Data is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sphere 3D Corp.
(NASDAQ:ANY) which delivers data management and desktop and
application virtualization solutions via hybrid Cloud, Cloud and
on-premises implementations through its global reseller
network. Sphere 3D, along with its wholly owned subsidiaries,
Overland Storage and Tandberg Data, has a strong portfolio of
brands, including HVE ConneXions and UCX ConneXions, dedicated to
helping customers achieve their IT goals. For more information,
visit www.sphere3d.com. Follow us on Twitter @Sphere3D,
@overlandstorage, and @tandbergdata.
Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains forward-looking statements that
involve risks, uncertainties, and assumptions that are difficult to
predict. Actual results and the timing of events could differ
materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking
statements as a result of risks and uncertainties including our
inability to comply with the covenants in our credit facilities or
to obtain additional debt or equity financing; any increase in our
future cash needs; our ability to successfully integrate the UCX
and HVE ConneXions business with Sphere 3D's other
businesses; our ability to regain compliance with the NASDAQ
minimum closing bid price requirement between now and July 31,
2017; our inability to take other actions to regain compliance with
the NASDAQ minimum closing bid price requirement; our ability to
maintain compliance with other NASDAQ Capital Market listing
requirements; unforeseen changes in the course of Sphere 3D’s
business or the business of its wholly-owned subsidiaries,
including, without limitation, Overland Storage and Tandberg Data;
market adoption and performance of our products; the level of
success of our collaborations and business partnerships; possible
actions by customers, partners, suppliers, competitors or
regulatory authorities; and other risks detailed from time to time
in Sphere 3D’s periodic reports contained in our Annual Information
Form and other filings with Canadian securities regulators
(www.sedar.com) and in prior periodic reports filed with the United
States Securities and Exchange Commission (www.sec.gov). Sphere 3D
undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement,
whether written or oral, that may be made from time to time,
whether as a result of new information, future developments or
otherwise, except as required by law.
1 https://www.lifewire.com/terabytes-gigabytes-amp-petabytes-how-big-are-they-4125169
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