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PMD Data Solutions continued it's Television & Broadcast marketing campaign by taking prime position in Televisual Magazine’s - Top 50 Facilities Edition. The latest issue of the leading industry magazine features a survey and poll of the top facility houses in the TV & Film industry. Industry professionals vote for who they believe has contributed the most to producing the best TV & Film content in the UK for the last year. It also ranks the companies by turnover, technology investment, number of staff and gives an indication of what these top companies are likely to invest in during the...

PMD Data Solutions start a busy period in the Media & Entertainment industry by featuring in leading industry press publication Televisual Magazine. The September copy is coveted for it's circulation at the Internationally renowned IBC Exhibition in Amsterdam where the latest in TV, Film, Broadcast Technology is on show.

IBM launch the new TS4300 tape library to enhance the existing range of IBM midrange and enterprise tape solutions. With support for established tape formats in LTO-6 and LTO-7 Ultrium, the new IBM TS4300 will provide compatibility with the very latest LTO-8 when tape drives and tape media become available this year. The modular design of the IBM TS4300 enables you to increase tape and drive capacity as needed. The IBM TS4300 LTO Ultrium tape library scales vertically with up to seven modules in a single rack. Email sales@pmddatasolutions.co.uk for a quotation.

Not all LTO tapes are manufactured in the same way LTO1 to LTO5 tapes were produced using traditional Metal Particle (MP) tape coating technology. However, Fujifilm developed advanced Barium Ferrite (BaFe) technology for their 6th generation LTO and enterprise tape formats. So what's the difference between traditional Metal Particle and Barium Ferrite? The evidence can be found under the microscope....... The right hand image is a close-up of Metal Particle LTO Ultrium tape: large particles, lying on their side, with little uniformity. The left hand image is Barium Ferrite LTO Ultrium tape: ultra-small particles, packed extremely densely due to particle...

WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF TAPE TECHNOLOGY FOR DATA STORAGE AND MANAGEMENT? There is news in the field of tape storage: two new products will be launched in 2018 which will change tape technology’s offer in the field of data storage. Planned for summer of next year is what we can call the IBM revolution; the new 3592JE drive with a 20TB capacity data tape and with 500MB/s transfer rate. Prior to this, the start of the year will see the launch of the new LTO8 with a capacity of 12TB and close to 350MB/s transfer rate (information to be...