Unless you handle the backups for a large corporation, bank, or government entity, you likely haven’t stored much data to tape recently. But magnetic storage used to be fairly mainstream back in ...

According to data tracked by Trendfocus, shipments of the most popular form of magnetic tape — linear tape-open (LTO) — increased by about 55.2% between 2017 and 2024.

This week, IBM introduced the Diamondback Tape Library, reaffirming its position that magnetic tape is a form of data storage that’s here to stay.Yes, magnetic tape, kind of like what’s ...