2014 subsidiary of overland storage industry computer data storage founded 1979 headquarters dortmund germany number of employees 350 jan 2012 slogan securing your information website www.tandbergdata.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 . contents 1 history 2 tandberg storage 2.1 history 2.2 operations 2.3 products 3 other tandberg companies 4 references 5 external links history edit tandberg radio factory was founded in oslo on january 25 1933 by vebj rn tandberg . in 1970 tandberg produces its first data tape drives . in dezember 1978 tandbergs radiofabrikk goes bankrupt . in january 1979 siemens and the state of norway establish tandberg data rescuing the data storage and display divisions from the ashes . siemens holds 51 % of the new company and controls it . the other divisions of tandberg go to norsk data . in 1981 tandberg becomes a founding member of qic committee for standardising interfaces and recording formats and produces its first streaming linear tape drive . in 1984 tandberg data goes public . in 1990 siemens sells most of its shares when merging its computer business with nixdorf . in 1991 the terminal business is split off as tandberg data display which ends up in the swedish company multiq . in 2003 tandberg storage and its subsidiary o mass split and became separate companies also listed on oslo stock exchange . tandberg data is the largest owner of tandberg storage with a 33.48 % stake . on august 30 2006 tandberg data purchased the assets of exabyte . combined revenue is expected to be usd 215 million for 2006 . on may 15 2007 tandberg data sold all remaining tandberg storage shares . on january 9 2008 pat clarke was promoted ceo of tandberg data . on september 12 2008 tandberg data announced the reacquisition of tandberg storage . on april 24 2009 tandberg data asa and tandberg storage asa filed for bankruptcy . 1 on may 19 2009 tandberg data announced that the new holding company tad holding as was established owning all global tandberg data subsidiaries including tandberg storage asa . cyrus capital is the majority shareholder and owner of the newly established company . 2 operations in norway continue in the newly formed company tandberg data norge as 3 on january 22 2014 tandberg data was acquired by overland storage . 4 tandberg storage edit tandberg storage asa former type subsidiary industry computer data storage fate bankruptcy founded may 22 2003 2003 05 22 defunct april 24 2009 2009 04 24 headquarters lysaker norway key people kevin devlin ceo ivind lund chair revenue nok 236 million 5 net income nok 23 million 5 number of employees 54 parent tandberg data website www.tandbergstorage.com 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 . 6 it was purchased by the same company in 2008 . 7 tandberg storage developed four drive series all based on linear tape open lto specifications . manufacturing was outsourced to the chinese based laf peripherals international . tandberg storage also owned 93.5 % of o mass as . the company was declared bankrupt together with tandberg data in 2009 . 8 history edit 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 . 9 the company was listed on the oslo stock exchange on 2 october 2003 with the owners of tandberg data receiving all the shares in tandberg storage . 6 the initial goal of the company was to develop a lto 2 linear tape open drive within a half height form factor . while the underlying technology had been developed the main components needed to be developed in particular the drive mechanism . a working system was demonstrated in december 2003 and in june 2004 the first complete prototype could be tested . in october the test program started and from december verification was initiated with the lto committee . the drive was approved on 11 march 2005 . in the second half of 2005 tandberg storage developed serial attached scsi and application and data integration . these were both launched in 2006 . in 2005 the company also started development of a half height lto 3 drive . the product was launched in 2007 . the following year a no encryption lto 4 was launched . 9 in november 2008 tandberg storage merged with tandberg data with the latter paying the former s owners in shares . both companies had been having financial problems and the cooperation between the two had been difficult during 2008 . tandberg storage was at the time the largest supplier to tandberg data . by merging the managements hoped to gain synergy effects between the two companies . until the announcement of the merger in september tandberg storage s share price had fallen 89 % since the start of the year . following the announcement the share price fell a further 35 % . the take over involved a refinancing of the debt in tandberg storage . tandberg storage remained a subsidiary . 7 operations edit the company was based at lysaker in b rum just outside oslo norway . of the 54 employees in 2007 45 worked within research and development . 10 the main competitors offering lto drives were hewlett packard ibm and quantum . 10 products edit tandberg storage produced a full range of linear tape open drives between 100 and 800 gigabytes . 11 manufactured by laf peripherals international of china 9 there are four models available . all drives were built around a common half height aluminum casting . all drives except the ts200 have variable transfer rate systems to match host transfer speeds . all drives have the lowest power consumption in the industry and do not require external fans . 11 in 2006 tandberg storage held a 26 % worldwide market share . 10 tape drives 11 specification ts1600 ts800 ts400 ts200 standard lto 4 lto 3 lto 2 lto 1 transfer rate 80 mb s 60 mb s 24 mb s 16 mb s interface scsi ultra 160 sas 1.1 scsi ultra 160 sas 1.1 scsi ultra 160 scsi ultra 160 memory buffer 128 mb 128 mb 64 mb 64 mb tape speed 4.37 m s 4.21 m s 4.21 m s 4.37 m s hard read error rate 10 17 10 17 10 17 10 17 other tandberg companies edit for other tandberg companies see tandberg disambiguation companies tandbergs radiofabrikk the original tandberg company . tandberg the parent company that spun off tandberg data . it now focuses on video conferencing . tandberg storage the storage research and development company spun off from tandberg data and later reacquired . o mass o mass as was a research and development subsidiary responsible for the development of a new read write head technology that could allow tape sizes to reach 10 terabytes . a conceptual 2 tb demonstration was produced . tandberg storage owned 93.5 % while imation of the united states held 6.5 % of the company . 10 12 three people worked for o mass . 13 references edit konkurs pning . br nn ysundsregistrene . retrieved april 25 2009 . tandberg data completes restructuring . it wire . retrieved may 22 2009 . n kkelopplysninger fra enhetsregisteret tandberg data norge as . br nn ysundsregistrene . retrieved july 24 2009 . overland storage completes acquisition of tandberg data a b annual report 2007 8 a b haraldsen christian h. 3 october 2003 . snart kommer fasiten . aftenposten in norwegian . retrieved 25 april 2009 . a b backen jonas blich 12 september 2008 . tandberg data kj per storage . dagens it in norwegian . retrieved 25 april 2009 . tandberg data er konkurs . computerworld norway in norwegian . 24 april 2009 . retrieved 15 july 2009 . a b c tandberg storage . history . retrieved 25 april 2009 . a b c d tandberg storage . operations . retrieved 25 april 2009 . cite error invalid ref tag ; name operations defined multiple times with different content see the help page . a b c tandberg storage . products . retrieved 25 april 2009 . halvorsen finn 13 june 2006 . tenker i terabytes . teknisk ukeblad in norwegian . retrieved 25 april 2009 . annual report 2007 5 external 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