Quantum to buy tape rival Certance
Data storage tape company will pay $60 million in cash.
Data storage tape company Quantum on Wednesday said it will pay $60 million in cash to acquire rival tape technology developer Certance. The purchase price excludes the distribution to the sellers of up to $34 million from Certance's balance sheet, Quantum said.
Certance developed LTO Ultrium format with partners IBM and Hewlett-Packard. Quantum, the creator of DLTtape technology, already sells LTO Ultrium-format drives in its tape automation systems. "As a newly combined $1 billion company building on Quantum's and Certance's complementary strengths, we will offer the industry's broadest portfolio of tape and disk systems for backup, recovery and archive," Quantum CEO