Symply, a privately owned UK-based company founded in 2015, develops and provides cloud storage and media workflow solutions. Employing approximately 10 people as of 2023, the company's products serve the media and entertainment industry, Apple, and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Symply is a subsidiary of Global Distribution and reported revenues of less than $10 million in 2023.
Symply, along with other data storage companies, announced updates to its tape library product portfolio to support the latest Linear Tape-Open Ultrium (LTO-10) generation. On June 25th, Symply and Blitz Micro hosted a webinar discussing the continued relevance of Linear Tape-Open (LTO) for long-term, cost-effective data archiving. Symply also released new SymplyPRO desktop and rackmount tape modules compatible with various LTO-10 certified tape modules, offering different performance levels. Separate LTO-10 announcements were made by Symply and other companies within a 48-hour period. The announcements highlight the ongoing use of LTO technology for large-scale data backup.