We see tape remaining at the heart of storage infrastructures and as we move into 2014, we expect to see even more of tape, especially as cloud-based storage gathers some more momentum. However ...

Additionally, tape’s unique advantages extend beyond storage capacity. It inherently supports air-gapped storage, making it highly resilient to ransomware attacks and cyber threats.

Tape storage has been declared dead so many times that it has become a trope in technology journalism. The truth is more complicated and is ultimately less about tape’s demise than it is about ...

Magnetic tape storage currently relies on the Linear Tape-Open, or LTO, format with LTO-8 being the highest capacity available today at 12 TB per cartridge—or 30 TB when that data is compressed ...

The rumors of magnetic tape’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. Tape is one of the oldest forms of storage still in use today, and the seventh generation of Linear Tape Open (LTO 7) paves the way ...

Tape systems are seen as more economical as data volumes grow, but backup and recovery times can be slow using tape. One limitation of Microsoft's storage software: It only works with Windows.

A Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) social media post boasts of the elimination of tape data storage facilities at the U.S. General Services Administration (GSE). A triumphant Tweet by ...

This new tape format won’t change that thanks to its cost and relatively slow data access speeds in comparison to, say, a modern SSD, but for commercial applications it means a lot more storage ...

IBM Research, in collaboration with Sony Storage Media Solutions, has announced that the two companies have created a tiny prototype storage cartridge that can store up to 330 terabytes of ...

Spectra Logic is aiming for the T120 to compete with several midrange tape libraries including ADIC's Scalar 1000, Overland Storage's NEO and Qualstar's RLS and TLS series, Isaacson said.

Today Spectra Logic announced the Spectra TFinity ExaScale Edition, the world’s largest and most richly-featured tape storage system. "Since 2008, Spectra Logic has worked with engineers in the NASA ...