They are the only company still selling drives that use the QIC (also known as SLR) and VXA formats, but also produce LTO along with autoloaders, tape libraries, NAS devices, RDX Removable Disk Drives, Media and Virtual Tape Libraries.

They have offices in Dortmund, Germany; Tokyo, Japan; Singapore; Guangzhou, China and Westminster, Colorado, U.S. Tandberg Storage ASA was a magnetic tape data storage company based in Lysaker, Norway.

[8] Tandberg Storage developed four drive series, all based on Linear Tape-Open (LTO) specifications.

[7] The initial goal of the company was to develop a LTO-2 linear tape-open drive within a half-height form factor.

In October, the test program started, and from December verification was initiated with the LTO Committee.

In the second half of 2005, Tandberg Storage developed Serial Attached SCSI and application and data integration.

Until the announcement of the merger in September, Tandberg Storage's share price had fallen 89% since the start of the year.

[12] Tandberg Storage produced a full range of Linear Tape-Open drives, between 100 and 800 gigabytes.