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 DOGE ...

It might have the first-ever version of UNIX written in C A tape-based piece of unique Unix history may have been lying ...

We look at tape storage and examine its benefits in capacity, throughput, suitability for certain media types and workloads, as well as its cost and security advantages.

As artificial intelligence continues its dizzying ascent, the unsung hero of the digital age is making a comeback: Tape storage. Once dismissed as outdated, tape storage is now being hailed as a ...

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 ...

Geyser Data has officially launched its Tape-as-a-Service (TaaS) product. The company this week announced the general availability of its TaaS offering following successful beta trials. Dubbed Tape ...

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the Next Data Cycle, today announced that its Global Data Environment software now incorporates data on any storage option - ...

Researchers are taking inspiration from cassette tapes to store data in the form of DNA. Credit: Southern University of Science and Technology “The main goal is to create a storage device that is ...

Quantum Corp. today plans to announce a firmware upgrade for its super digital linear tape (SDLT) products that will create a write-once, read-many capability designed to help users preserve data as ...

This time out, we consider the dwindling role of tape in IT backup. Tape has been a part of the IT backup scene almost since the get-go. It has always offered the virtues of being cheap and easy to ...

A computer tape from a Connecticut bank containing personal data on 90,000 customers was lost in transit recently, the bank reported today. People’s Bank, based in Bridgeport, Conn., is sending ...