Tape drives are traditionally launched as a standalone product first, and then it takes the automation vendors three to six months to integrate the product into their libraries and autoloaders. We didn't think that made sense, so the DLT-S4 is available as both a stand-alone drive and in the PX720 library.
Quotes about autoloaders (2 Quotes)
But autoloaders are aimed at the server level, not the desktop level, so there should be stronger interest among VARs and system integrators.