Why it matters: Magnetic tapes continue to be a formidable storage solution for data archival and backup, enabling organizations and large-scale businesses to hold onto vast amounts of data for ...

Back in the day: Consumers stopped using magnetic tape storage so long ago that many reading this are likely too young to know what it is. However, its ability to store massive amounts of data on ...

An April 4 U.S. Department of Government Efficiency social post announced that the U.S. General Services Administration IT team “just saved $1M per year by converting 14,000 magnetic tapes (70 year ...

Linear Tape Open (LTO) is a magnetic tape type recording medium for computers, and is mainly sold to the enterprise for backup and archiving. The latest generation of such LTO is LTO-8, but when the ...

Magnetic tape data storage required more than ever 201 gigabits per square inch has been squeezed onto a prototype ‘sputtered magnetic tape’ It's been developed by Sony Storage Media Solutions When ...