Certance

Certance, LLC
Company type
Private
IndustryInformation technology
Founded1996; 30 years ago (1996) in Costa Mesa, California, United States
Defunct2005 (2005)
FateAcquired by Quantum Corporation
Headquarters
Costa Mesa, California, United States
ProductsComputer tape drives

Certance, LLC, was a privately held company engaged in design and manufacture of computer tape drives.

Based in Costa Mesa, California, Certance designed and manufactured drives using a variety of tape formats, including Travan, DDS, and Linear Tape-Open computer tape drives. Certance was one of the three original technology partners — Certance, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard — that created the Linear Tape-Open technology.

In 2005, Certance was acquired by Quantum Corporation.

History

The company began in 1996 as the removable storage systems division of Seagate Technology. This division was formed when Seagate acquired Conner Peripherals, further consolidating the tape technology market. Connor had previously acquired Archive Corporation, including the assets of Irwin Magnetic Systems, Cipher Data Products, Maynard Electronics, and Kennedy Company. Software from this consolidation, notably including Backup Exec, was made part of the Seagate Software division.

In a 2000 restructuring, involving Seagate Technology and Veritas Software, the division was spun off into the independent company Seagate Removable Storage Systems. The company was the worldwide unit volume shipment leader in 2001, 2002, and 2003.[1]

The company name was changed to "Certance" in 2003. Shortly after, in 2005, Quantum Corporation acquired Certance.[2]

Tape technology companies merged into Seagate and spun off as Certance
SeagateConnor
Peripherals		Archive
Corporation		Maynard
Electronics		Cipher Data
Products		Irwin
Magnetics		Kennedy
Company
Seagate
Removable
Storage
Systems
SeagateCertance

References

  1. ^ "About Certance". Certance. Archived from the original on 2006-12-07.
  2. ^ McMillan, Robert (21 October 2004). "Quantum acquires tape drive maker Certance". Computerworld. Archived from the original on 2014-12-17. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
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