Magnetic storage tape has’t been the recommended destination for the initial backup copy of data for quite some time, and the question is whether LTO-9, the latest tape open standard, and other ...

OptiVault reduces the need for magnetic tape backup, Clear Choice Tests show. Primera Technology’s OptiVault aims to help IT managers solve the problems of long-term e-mail and critical file ...

Magnetic tape is a storage method still used today, with the manufacturers behind Linear Tape-Open (standard) shipping 152.9 exabytes of tape in 2023.

Magnetic Tape Data Storage Breakthrough Will Make Your Hard Drive Seem Tiny. By Andrew Liszewski Published August 2, 2017 ... don’t throw out your current backup solutions just yet.

For years, magnetic tapes were used for backup and archival storage, and tape libraries with robotic mechanisms were found in large enterprises. In the 1980s and 1990s, ...

Magnetic tape, 3M, 6250 CPI for computer tape drives, used as storage media between 1970 and 1990 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This year, 2012, digital plastic substrate magnetic tape turns 60 years old.

IBM has been innovating magnetic tape storage technologies. ... Tape can also serve as an “air gap” backup—offline versions of important or sensitive files that are resistant to cyberattacks.

IBM introduces enterprise magnetic tape drive that holds 50TB per cartridge Compressing data raises capacity to 150TB, over double the previous model's limit. By Daniel Sims August 25, 2023, 17:05 ...

US GSA has decommissioned 14,000 tapes and an unknown amount of tape drives The data was moved to a new, unknown media platform that appears to have WORM capabilities US GSA claims to save $1M per ...

A sequential storage medium used for data collection, backup and archiving. The first electronic storage medium, magnetic tape is made of flexible plastic with one side coated with a ferromagnetic ...