LTO Ultrium tape technology uses a best of breed technology approach, taking the best features from other tape technologies and combining them into a single new technology. The inclusion of innovative features such as data rate matching means that the LTO Ultrium tape drive has a proven mean time before failure (MTBF) rating of 250, 000 hours at a 100 percent duty cycle, making the LTO Ultrium a true enterprise class tape drive. Linear Tape Open (LTO) format is an industry open-standard format; thus data written on StorageWorks Ultrium tape drives can be interchanged directly with Ultrium tape drives from other vendors.