was public, since 2014 subsidiary of Overland Storage | |
Industry | Computer data storage |
Founded | 1979 |
Headquarters | Dortmund, Germany |
Number of employees
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350 (Jan 2012) |
Website | www.tandbergdata.com |
Subsidiary | |
Industry | Computer data storage |
Fate | Bankruptcy |
Founded | May 22, 2003 |
Defunct | April 24, 2009 |
Headquarters | Lysaker, Norway |
Key people
|
Kevin Devlin (CEO) Øivind Lund (Chair) |
Revenue | 236 million kr |
NOK −23 million | |
Number of employees
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54 |
Parent | Tandberg Data |
Website | www.tandbergstorage.com |
Tandberg Data GmbH is a company focused on data storage products, especially streamers, headquartered in Dortmund, Germany. 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.
Tandberg Data used to manufacture computer terminals (e.g. TDV 2200), keyboards, and other hardware as well.
They have offices in Dortmund, Germany; Tokyo, Japan; Singapore; Guangzhou, China and Westminster, Colorado, USA.
Tandberg Storage ASA was a magnetic tape data storage company based in Lysaker, Norway. The company was a subsidiary of Tandberg Data. The company was spun off from Tandberg Data in 2003 to focus exclusively on tape drives. It was purchased by the same company in 2008. Tandberg Storage developed four drive series, all based on Linear Tape-Open (LTO) specifications. Manufacturing was outsourced to the Chinese-based Lafè Peripherals International. Tandberg Storage also owned 93.5% of O-Mass AS. The company was declared bankrupt together with Tandberg Data in 2009.
Tandberg Storage was established as a spin-off of Tandberg Data on 22 May 2003. Tandberg Storage had previously been an integrated part of Tandberg Data, but management wanted the two companies to follow separate research and development strategies. While Tandberg Data retained responsibility on complete storage and automation systems, Tandberg Storage would focus on advanced tape-drive technologies. Tandberg Storage was established with 37 research and development employees, plus a 93.5% ownership of O-Mass. The company was listed on the on 2 October 2003, with the owners of Tandberg Data receiving all the shares in Tandberg Storage.