Our CEO Series includes interviews with leaders in the LTO Storage segment. Our first series features Nathan Thompson, the Founder and CEO of Spectra Logic.

In the late 1990s, Nathan Thompson faced a crossroads: his company was building both tape automation hardware AND backup software—competing with everyone in the market. The easy move? Sell the hardware and keep the high margin software business that employed much of his team.

Instead, Nathan did the opposite. He sold the software division to Sterling Software and bet everything on tape libraries.