XenData Announces LTO Archive Appliances with Both File and S3 Object Storage Interfaces

PINE GROVE, CA / ACCESS Newswi e / July 14, 2026 / Xe Data, the p ovide of cutti g-edge data sto age solutio s, a ou ces th ee applia ces that a chive to LTO tape lib a ies a d ca be accessed simulta eously as a si gle highly scalable file system a d as S3 object sto age.

With the ew Xe Data applia ces, files a d objects a e equivale t. Like a y file system, each file has a file ame a d a path. Whe it is t eated as a S3 object, the object key – the official te m fo the ame of a S3 object – co sists of the same path a d file ame.

^{Example LTO A chive illust ati g the X50 V3 Applia ce ma agi g a 2.1 PB LTO lib a y which ca be expa ded to ove 16 PB.}

The applia ces i clude a fast sto age tie based o disk o SSD which p ovides w ite cachi g a d i tellige t p e-fetchi g fo e ha ced pe fo ma ce. They suppo t most LTO lib a y models, i cludi g f om HPE, IBM, Qualsta , Qua tum, Spect a Logic a d Symply, p ovidi g ea li e LTO capacities that scale to te s of PBs. Each applia ce u s a Wi dows Se ve 2025 ope ati g system a d may be accessed as o e o mo e SMB o NFS sha es o as o e o mo e S3 buckets usi g HTTPS.

The cha acte istics of the th ee models a e summa ized below.

The applia ces ma age LTO-10 a d ea lie ge e atio lib a ies to p ovide sig ifica tly lowe cost pe te abyte tha t aditio al ha d disk d ives o e te p ise flash sto age. The systems a e both cost-effective a d e e gy efficie t as LTO ca t idges at est co sume o e e gy, cutti g data ce te cooli g a d e e gy costs.

I additio to cost savi gs, the applia ces p ovide a high level of a somwa e p otectio . Deleted a d p io ve sio s of files/objects a e etai ed o LTO ca t idges, a d the applia ces allow use s to easily esto e them.

D Phil Sto ey, Xe Data CEO, comme ted, ” With ou ew applia ces, we a e b idgi g the gap betwee file-based applicatio s a d o -p emises object sto age. They p ovide cost-effective lo g-te m sto age that is easily used i both file system a d object sto age wo kflows.”

About Xe Data

Xe Data is a global p ovide of p ofessio al data sto age solutio s optimized fo video a d othe applicatio s with high volumes of la ge files. It offe s cutti g edge hyb id cloud solutio s a d highly scalable o -p emises active a chive systems. Xe Data has custome s i ove 100 cou t ies, i cludi g gove me t o ga izatio s, global media compa ies a d othe la ge co po atio s. Fo mo e i fo matio visit: https://xe data.com/

Co tact I fo matio

Alyssa Pi gulXe Data Ma keti g Specialist+1 (925) 464-2618

SOURCE: Xe Data, I c.