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 the ...

Tape is the IT industry’s longest-lived magnetic medium and offers a number of benefits over spinning disk and flash technology. These include capacity and cost. Once a tape system is set up, it is ...

About 2.6 million current and former Circuit City credit card account holders are being notified by credit card vendor Chase Card Services that five computer data tapes containing their personal ...

It has been a long time since we stored software and computer data on audiotape. But it used to be the de facto standard for hobby computers and [Noel] has a great video about the Amstrad’s system ...

Access to hundreds of tape drives in archives that scale to exabytes from anywhere in the world, with all data held in a single namespace. That’s what’s on offer from QStar, which launched its Global ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. This week, IBM introduced the Diamondback Tape Library, reaffirming ...

IBM and Fujifilm have demonstrated a technology that, if productized, could give us a 70 TB LTO tape cartridge. Is tape dead - or merely sleeping? Vacuum column, 800bpi tape drives Magnetic tape is ...

Wait a moment — have I stepped into a time machine? We all know that magnetic tape is so….yesterday. Isn’t all storage these days on solid-state or hard-disk drive (HDD) memory? The answer is yes, it ...

The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. has notified about 237,000 policy holders of a potential compromise of their personal data. The warning followed the loss of three backup tapes containing ...