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U.S. Gov't eliminates tape data storage at the GSA to save $1M per year, but tape isn't dead yet

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 ...

Fujifilm Launches LTO Ultrium 10 (40TB) Data Cartridge

Magnetic tape storage media with a maximum storage capacity of 100TB (compressed) per cartridge, approximately 33 percent ...
Forbes

IBM Announces 50TB Enterprise Magnetic Tape Drive And Cartridges

IBM announced its TS1170 magnetic tape drive, supporting storage capacities up to 50TB native and higher capacities with compression. The product has a native data rate of 400 MB/s and has a 12Gb SAS ...
Security

GPS-Device Allows Tracking of In-Transit Data Tapes

VALHALLA, NY, November 7, 2007 – Fujifilm today announced the Fujifilm Tape Tracker, a unique, high performance data asset management solution that improves the security and shipping of data tape ...
Forbes

Cold Data At FMS And Magnetic Tape Data Recovery

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The FMS conference has moved from a concentration on solid state storage to other types of storage as well. In this article we ...
SiliconANGLE

Spectra Logic brings tape technology into the modern era

Tape drives might seem like old news, but according to Spectra Logic Corp., they’re a part of the modern data solution. Now reaching its 25th anniversary, the company focuses on tape-based solutions ...
Business Wire

Unstructured Data Growth and Hybrid Cloud Adoption Drive Record-High LTO Tape Capacity Shipments in 2024

SILICON VALLEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The LTO Program Technology Provider Companies (TPCs), Hewlett Packard Enterprise , International Business Machines Corporation and Quantum Corporation, today ...
Business Wire

Hammerspace Expands Global Data Environment to Include Data on Tape, Providing Seamless Visibility and Standards-Based File Access on Any Storage Type

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 - ...
Hackaday

When The Professionals Trash Your Data Tape, Can It Still Be Recovered?

People trying to preserve digital artifacts held on old media often not only have to contend with the media themselves decaying, but also with obscure media formats for which there’s seemingly little ...
RFID Journal

Imation Announces RFID Solution for Tracking Data Tapes

A single data tape cartridge can hold hundreds gigabytes of sensitive information. “Our data storage cartridges can hold up to a terabyte of data, and that could contain hundreds of thousands of ...
Computerworld

Virtual Tape

Computerworld QuickStudies In comparison, hard drive storage combined the machine and the medium into a single piece of hardware, gaining speed and simplifying access. But it also drove up storage ...