What Exabyte Corporation does

Exabyte Corporation is a Boulder, Colorado-based company historically focused on tape storage solutions, originally incorporated in 1985 and once publicly traded on the OTCBB under the ticker EXBT. In its operating period the company built and sold tape backup hardware and related storage technology to enterprise and mid-market customers requiring archival and backup infrastructure. On 2001-08-23 it acquired Ecrix to broaden its tape product line, and on 2003-11-10 it received an investment from Glassbridge Enterprises (as lead investor), consistent with a recapitalization of a contracting tape storage business amid the rise of disk-based backup.

The current available data set does not describe an active operating business. The single substantive source is a BrandBucket marketplace listing for the domain exabyte.com priced at $254,615 outright or $11,140 per month on a lease-to-own basis — a domain-asset transaction, not evidence of product sales, customer relationships, or revenue. No management team, customer logos, products, partnerships, headcount detail, or financial metrics are present in the input beyond the firmographic shell (11-50 employees, Boulder, founded 1985, private).

On the basis of the input, the company is best characterized as a legacy tape storage entity whose operating footprint has materially contracted. Its primary identifiable digital asset, the exabyte.com domain, is being actively marketed for sale rather than used to support an operating product, service, or go-to-market motion. Any inference about current revenue, growth, or strategy should be treated as low-confidence absent additional disclosure.

Name

Exabyte Corporation

Website

https://exabyte.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1985

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Tape Storage Hardware

NAICS

Computer Storage Device Manufacturing (334112), Manufacturing and Reproducing Magnetic and Optical Media (33461)

SIC

Computer Storage Devices (3572), Magnetic & Optical Recording Media (3695)

akta.pro primary industry

Tape Storage Systems & Media (LTO, Libraries, Autoloaders) (HDACACAE)

Keywords

• Tape storage solutions
• Data backup systems
• Enterprise storage hardware
• Magnetic tape drives
• Storage automation

Headquarters

HQ city

Boulder

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Pricing tiers

Core offering

Exabyte Corporation provides innovative tape storage solutions for enterprise and business customers. The company designs and manufactures magnetic tape-based storage hardware for data backup, archival, and long-term retention. Founded in 1985 and headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, Exabyte serves organizations requiring reliable, high-capacity data storage infrastructure.

Product overview

The source data contains only a domain name listing for exabyte.com being sold on BrandBucket, not actual product information for an Exabyte Corporation company. The domain listing suggests potential use cases (cloud storage platform, compression and storage technology, IT company, technology startup) but does not describe actual existing products or services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Emerging players

• Veeam Software: Modern backup and data protection vendor whose cloud- and virtual-centric approach increasingly substitutes for tape-based backup, representing the secular shift pressuring Exabyte's category.

Broad incumbents

• IBM: Operates the TS series of enterprise tape libraries and remains a co-developer of LTO technology; a broad incumbent whose tape offerings compete with Exabyte's historical portfolio.
• Dell Technologies: Offers enterprise backup and storage solutions including tape offerings through OEM channels; broad incumbent with overlap to Exabyte's enterprise backup customer base.
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Sells enterprise StoreEver tape products through OEM partnerships with HPE-branded autoloaders and libraries — a large incumbent overlapping with Exabyte's tape-storage category.

Direct peers

• Qualstar: Focused on tape-based storage libraries and disk-based backup products for enterprise and archive workloads, directly comparable to Exabyte's library business.
• Quantum Corporation: Direct competitor in tape storage drives, autoloaders, and enterprise backup products. Quantum's LTO and Scalar tape libraries target the same customer use cases Exabyte historically served.
• Spectra Logic: Specialist in enterprise tape libraries and long-term archive solutions; competes in the same data-protection tape segment where Exabyte historically operated.
• Overland Storage (Tandberg): Competitor in entry-level and mid-range tape autoloaders and libraries, overlapping directly with Exabyte's autoloader and VXA-era product lines.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights3 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A1 record

Investments

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