The computer's storage media prior to solid state drives (SSDs). Magnetic tape and disks were developed in the 1950s and commonly used together in companies for decades. Tape was the primary medium ...

Magnetic tape may seem like a pretty antiquated data storage technology, but its density and capacity is still hard to beat for big data centers. Now, IBM and Fujifilm have teamed up to create a ...

Storing data on magnetic tape might sound delightfully retro, but it’s actually still widely in use for archival purposes thanks to its high data density. Now researchers at the University of Tokyo ...

University of Southampton scientists have stored the full human genome on a 5D memory crystal—a revolutionary data storage format that can survive for billions of years. When preparing for what could ...

The tech world (and let’s be totally honest, tech journalists) have a recency bias — a type of cognitive skew that places greater importance on whatever is shiny and new. And the temptation is often ...

New cloud technology is still largely dependant on century old magnetic tape, and unfortunately, there are not the makers around that there used to be. Magnetic tape is still being used for back-ups ...

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 ...

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 backups ...

WASHINGTON — Rep. Betty McCollum has asked the Government Accountability Office to reopen an investigation into privacy and national security risks when the federal government sells used magnetic data ...

THE WHIRR of spooling magnetic tape is more likely to evoke feelings of nostalgia than technological awe. Yet tape remains important for data storage, with millions of kilometres of the stuff coiled ...

The LTO program released shipment information for LTO tape in 2020. Compressed media shipment capacities (2.5:1.0 compression) reported were 105.2 EB in 2020, down about 7.7% from 114 EB shipped in ...

For the past few years, I have been writing projection blogs on digital storage and memory and systems that use these technologies for the following year. This will be the first of three articles ...