Quantum Corporation (NYSE:DSS) was founded in 1980. It is a global leader in data protection, meeting the needs of business customers with enterprise-wide storage solutions and services.

In April 2001, Maxtor Corporation acquired the hard disk drive division, thus assuming all responsibility for customer support for Quantum's hard disk drives (such as the legendary Fireball Series).

Quantum is now the world's largest supplier of tape drives, and its DLTtape™ technology is the standard for backup, archiving, and recovery of mission-critical data. Quantum is a leader in the design, manufacture, and service of automated tape libraries used to manage, store, and transfer data.

Offering complete service and support, Quantum's StorageCare™ program assists value added resellers, integrators and end users in assessing, designing, implementing, maintaining and optimizing data protection solutions.

Sales
Fiscal 2003 (ended 3/31/03): $871 million

Employees
Approximately 2,000 worldwide

Distribution
Quantum's distribution network includes more than 30 domestic and over 35 international distributors. With aconsistent focus on the unique needs of the channel, Quantum offers programs that lead to strong, lasting relationships with resellers, distributors, and OEMs including HP, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, and Sun Microsystems.

Operations
North America, Asia Pacific and Japan, Europe

Products
- DLTtape drives - half-inch cartridge DLTtape drives with capacities of 20, 35, and 40GB native (uncompressed)
- Super DLTtape™ drives - SDLT 320 with a capacity of 160GB and transfer rate of 16MB/sec native (uncompressed)
- Autoloaders - enterprise-class ATL SuperLoader™
- Automated Tape Libraries - ATL L200, ATL M1500, ATL M2500, ATL P4000, and ATL P7000; capacities from one to 80 drives, and from eight to more than 2,394 cartridges
- Quantum DX30 - an extremely dense disk-based enhanced backup system with more than 3TB of native capacity within a 4U (7-inch) rack mounted package
- StorageCare™ Services - a complete service and support offering designed to assist value-added resellers, integrators, and end-user customers in assessing, designing, implementing, maintaining, and optimizing their data protection solutions

Related Photos:

The Quantum Fireball Hard Disk Drive	DX-Series Enhanced Backup Solutions The DX100 delivers unprecedented enterprise disk-based performance, scalable capacity, and outstanding reliability.
A DLTtape Drive Featuring an unprecedented 72 MB/s compressed transfer rate and colossal 600GB compressed capacity, there has never been anything quite like it.	An L-Series Autoloader This scalable tape autoloader provides unbeatable data density, capacity and performance in a 2U rackmount form factor.