Certance

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

Certance, LLC

Former headquarters in Costa Mesa, California; now a FedEx Ship Center
Company type	Private
Industry	Information technology
Founded	1996; 29 years ago (1996) in Costa Mesa, California, United States
Defunct	2005 (2005)
Fate	Acquired by Quantum Corporation
Headquarters	Costa Mesa, California, United States
Products	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 as the removable storage systems division of Seagate Technology. The division was formed in 1996 from storage companies Archive Corporation, Irwin Magnetic Systems, Cipher Data Products, and Maynard Electronics. In a restructuring involving Seagate Technology and Veritas Software, the division was spun off in 2000 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. In 2004, Quantum Corporation announced plans to acquire Certance. The acquisition was completed in 2005, whereupon Certance ceased to exist as an independent company.^[2]

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