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Spectra Logic's innovative solutions make backups easier, reduce risk due to excellent support services, and expand to grow with customer needs and changing technology. Spectra Logic and its products have won many industry awards because of its solid 30+ year history and commitment to better data protection.

June 2010 - Spectra T-Finity Green Storage Product of the Year
The Spectra T-Finity was named "Green Storage Product of the Year" at the seventh annual Storage Awards 2010. The Storries VII awards program honors outstanding products, services and people, and winners are selected based on votes submitted by readers of Storage Magazine in the UK.
 
April 2010 - Spectra T-Finity DICE Product of the Year
The Spectra T-Finity was named "Product of the Year" in the 2nd annual DICE Data Intensive Impact Awards. The awards program showcases products and technologies that have enabled progress in HPC data management in locality, movement, manipulation and integrity, as well as power and cooling efficiencies.
 
March 2010 - Everything Channel Five-Star Partner Program Winner
Spectra Logic's SpectraEDGE channel partner program was awarded a Five-Star recognition in Everything Channel's 16th annual 2010 Partner Program Guide (PPG), acknowledging its commitment and strength of its programs for reseller partners, which include IT integrators, technology solution providers and consultants.
 
February 2010 - 2010 Channel Chiefs: Who's Who In Storage
Spectra Logic's Molly Rector was honored by the CRN as an executive charged with making sure the channel remains an important part of their business.
 
January 2010 - Storage Magazine/SearchStorage.com Products of the Year
Spectra Logic's BlueScale 10.6 software was named a finalist in the backup and disaster recovery (DR) hardware category in the 2009 Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com Products of the Year competition.
 
January 2010 - Storage Visions Awards
The Spectra T-Finity tape library earned the award for "Professional Media and Entertainment Storage" in the Ninth Annual Storage Visions Conference awards program.
 
June 2009 - Storage Website of the Year
The Storage Awards are given by the readers of Storage magazine to reward the outstanding products, services and people in the data storage industry. The 2009 Awards saw, in excess of 6000 readers vote (22,000+ votes cast in total) for their favorite products, people and companies. Spectra Logic won the award for "Storage Website of the Year 2009."
 
June 2008 - Emerging Tech
CRN's Emerging Tech list captures companies that are delivering high margins for solution providers with innovative and easy-to-use technology that undercuts industry giants. Spectra Logic was honored in 2008, a second consecutive year, for its Media Lifecycle Management tape health tracking software.
 
April 2008 - Best Practices in Storage
NASCAR Media Group was named top honoree in Computerworld’s Best Practices in Storage Awards Program 2008, in the ‘Selecting and Deploying a Storage Network’ category at Storage Networking World (SNW). NASCAR Media Group’s Spectra®T950 stores more than 50,000 hours of video footage, including NASCAR-related events, TV programs, movies, commercials and other broadcast data. Read More
 
January 2008 - Product of the Year Finalist
Storage Magazine, 2007 Storage Products of the Year Finalist, Backup Hardware Category. Spectra T950 with BlueScale 10 Management Interface. LTO-4 hit the market in 2007, bringing improved speeds and feeds as well as native tape encryption for data security. Spectra Logic shipped its LTO-4 tape library with some key management software, essential to managing encryption, but an ingredient missing from many LTO-4 tape products. Read More
 
October 2007 - Fast 50
Spectra Logic was named in Deloitte and Touche's Technology Fast 50 awards program, which honors the 50 fastest growing companies in Colorado each year. Spectra achieved a 36% revenue growth over five calendar years and earned 44th place in the 2007 rankings. Read More
 
June 2007
Spectra Logic was named an "Emerging Tech Dynamo" by CRN magazine. The highlighted companies offer superior technology, more robust margins and uncompromising technical support to solution providers/VARs. solution providers say the Emerging Tech IT companies are beating established vendors in head-to-head product, margin, technical support and field engagement comparisons.
 
January 2007
InfoWorld magazine named the Spectra T120 with BlueScale Encryption in its prestigious 2007 Technology of the Year Awards Program. The T120 with Encryption won in the Storage category for Best Mid-Tier Tape Library. Read More
 
January 2007 and January 2006.
Spectra Logic earned the Diogenes—Storage Magazine Quality Award for Mid-Range Tape Libraries. Spectra Logic’s mid-range products were evaluated and ranked first place by end users based on five criteria, including: sales competence; product features; initial quality; product reliability; and technical support. Read More (PDF)
 
November 2006
Spectra Logic BlueScale Encryption customer R.C. Willey Home Furnishings was selected by Computerworld as a finalist of its “Best Practices in Storage” Awards Program at SNW-Fall 2006. R.C. Willey was named finalist in the “Securing the Storage Fortress” Category, which recognizes organizations that proactively observe the need to protect their stored data from internal and external threats.

 

 
October 2006
Spectra Logic Corporation was named to Deloitte's prestigious Colorado Technology Fast 50 Program, a ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications and life sciences companies in Colorado by Deloitte & Touche USA LLP, one of the nation’s leading professional services organizations. Rankings are based on the percentage revenue growth over five years from 2001–2005.
 
September 2006
Spectra Logic was named a winner in Byte and Switch’s Big Bytes awards program, which honors innovation and excellence in storage networking. BlueScale Encryption was one of three products named finalist in the Storage Network Security category.
 
April 2006
The Spectra T950 with BlueScale Encryption was named a finalist in the 6th annual eWeek Excellence Awards Program, in the enterprise storage hardware category.
November 2005
CRN Test Labs Product Review: The Spectra T50. CRN magazine’s test lab editors recently named the Spectra T50 “easy to use, mange and maintain….ideal for both large and small companies….easily expandable….affordable….flexible and feature-rich”. The Spectra T50 earned 2005 CRN Test Center Recommendation recognition.
October 2005
IT Week magazine reviewed and awarded the Spectra T50 with five stars and the Editor’s Choice Award for value, speed and expandability.
October 2005
Spectra Logic was named to Deloitte's prestigious Technology Fast 50 Program for Colorado, a ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in the state by Deloitte & Touche USA LLP, one of the nation’s leading professional services organizations. Spectra Logic’s 103 percent revenue growth over five years from 2000–2004, earned the recognition.
January 2005
Spectra Logic was named by Storage magazine editors this week as one winner of the 2004 “Products of the Year” award. Spectra Logic’s enterprise T950 library with integrated RXT, removable RAID disk, was introduced in April 2004. The Spectra T950 with RXT is the first library to actually contain both disk and tape inside a single library. [Read more]
March 2004
Spectra Logic earns Computer Technology Review's "Best of the Best" award for the Spectra T950. [Read more]
May 2003
Spectra Logic earns The Communicator Awards Honor of Distinction for the Print Media Competition. Graphic Design and Public Relations were highlighted for their conference campaign efforts around the reseller conference VARCon 2002.
April 2003
Spectra Logic’s CEO Nathan Thompson receives the University of Colorado Most Distinguished Alumni Award in the category of Research and Invention. Thompson founded Spectra Logic in his dorm at CU-Boulder in 1979
October 2002
Spectra Logic Corporation, the industry’s leading manufacturer of high-performance tape libraries for data protection and backup, has been recognized in Deloitte & Touche's prestigious Technology Fast 50 program for Colorado , a ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in the state. Rankings are based on the percentage of growth in fiscal year revenues from 1997-2001 (five-year period).
January 2001
Imaging & Document Solutions Magazine, a documentation solutions publication dedicated to providing business professionals with leading imaging and document product management resources, named Spectra Logic’s enterprise-class tape libraries, the Spectra 12K & 64K, Product of the Year 2000 award winners.
June 2000
Imaging & Document Solutions Magazine, a documentation solutions publication dedicated to providing business professionals with leading imaging and document product management resources, named Spectra Logic’s AIT tape libraries, the Spectra 12K & 64K, “Best of AIIM” product award winners following the AIIM 2000 Show in New York City.
1996
Spectra Logic’s CEO Nathan Thompson receives the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for the Rocky Mountain Region.