Quantum Corporation provides storage, delivering backup, recovery and archive, and recovery solutions for data integrity and availability. The company operates in two segments, DLTtape and Storage Systems. The DLTtape segment consists of tape drive and tape media cartridge product lines that serve the tape drive market. The Storage Systems segment comprises tape automation systems and service, and includes disk-based backup systems. This segment offers various tape automation systems that are used to manage, store, and transfer data in enterprise networked computing environments. These tape automation systems, including tape libraries and autoloaders, serve the tape library data storage market that varies from desktop computers to enterprise-class computers. Quantum Corporation markets its products directly to end customers, manufacturers of computer systems and workstations, distributors, resellers, and systems integrators through its worldwide sales force. The company has operations in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Quantum was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in San Jose, California

Advanced Digital Information Corporation (ADIC) provides Intelligent Storage solutions for the open systems marketplace. It designs, markets, sells, and supports hardware and software products that enable a range of business and governmental organizations to store, manage, access, and protect their large-scale data. The company offers its products in three product categories: automated tape libraries, data management software, and disk-based data protection solutions. Its automated tape libraries are primarily used to back up networked data in open systems environments that deploy UNIX, Linux, or Windows servers. They also integrate several tape drive technologies from various suppliers. ADICÕs data management software provides automated and integrated management of data on various platforms, operating systems, and storage media types for information technology departments, who manage a range of enterprise-scale digital assets. Its disk-based data protection solutions are used to combine the disk resources with management software, connectivity technology, and other hardware systems in a single, integrated data protection solution. The company offers its products through value-added resellers, direct marketing resellers, and distributors to various industries, including technology, financial/services, commercial/industrial, and telecommunications/entertainment industries, as well as governmental agencies worldwide. ADIC was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Redmond, Washington.