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