Why we built it
Tape wins on cost. It should win on ease too.
Most archive software treats tape as a place data goes to be forgotten: slow to reach, tied to one vendor's format, and understood only by the one person who set it up. We come from the tape and storage industry, from drive design, media, diagnostics and the support desk, and we know what tape can do when the software around it is built well.
Works like the storage you know
A staging tier on disk or SSD takes in new data and serves recent restores at its own speed. Tape does the long-term keeping in the background.
Open, so it outlives us
Every file is written whole in open LTFS, so any cartridge reads on its own in any compatible LTO drive, with or without our software.
Proven, not just written
Files are hashed as they come in, verified after writing and re-verified on a schedule, with a dated readability report per cartridge.
Support that knows drives
XPNTL Sentry watches drive and staging health around the clock, and Sentry Pro adds the diagnostic tools we would use ourselves.
Leadership
The people behind XPNTL Archive.
Pete Paisley
Chief Executive Officer
Pete Paisley has worked in the tape storage business for more than 22 years, within a career of over 25 years in sales and business development across the IT industry. At NCE he led aftermarket services for major technology OEMs including repair, screen and test, build, logistics and IT asset disposition services across the US, and continued there after Park Place Technologies acquired NCE in 2017. He went on to serve as Vice President at Ultratest Services, a supplier of data destruction and repair appliances to ITAD, enterprise and cloud service providers, and then started his own consulting business, now called Circular Momentum. In 2022 he founded Xponential Systems, where he builds data archive solutions that improve both the economics and the overall value of tape.
George Saliba
Chief Technology Officer
George Saliba has spent more than 35 years in data storage. At Quantum Corporation he was the primary inventor of the DLT and Super DLT tape families, leading eight consecutive generations to market along with DLTtape media and DLTStor automation; DLT became an industry standard, shipping more than 100 million cartridges, and earned him the name “Mr. DLT.” Before Quantum he led tape engineering at Digital Equipment Corporation and developed disk drives at Storage Technology Corporation. In 2009 he founded Saliba Technologies in Boulder, Colorado, where he invented the Tape Drive Doctor for LTO and DLT tapes and consults on disk, tape and storage technology. He holds over 90 US patents, was twice named Quantum’s Inventor of the Year, received its Lifetime Achievement Award and the University of Colorado Denver’s 2016 Distinguished Alumni Award, and holds BSEE and MSEE degrees from the University of Colorado.
The company
Xponential Systems Inc.
XPNTL and XPNTL Archive are brands of Xponential Systems Inc., which develops, sells and supports XPNTL Archive software for Windows, macOS and Linux.
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