An April 4 U.S. Department of Government Efficiency social post announced that the U.S. General Services Administration IT team “just saved $1M per year by converting 14,000 magnetic tapes (70 year ...

In context: The Linear Tape-Open (LTO) format for tape-based magnetic data recording was developed in the Nineties as an open-standard alternative to proprietary tape formats. The technology provides ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. For several years I have written a series of articles outlining my projections for various digital storage and non-volatile memory ...

Magnetic tape storage is something many of us will associate with 8-bit microcomputers or 1960s mainframe computers, but it still has a place in the modern data center for long-term backups. It’s ...

With the proliferation of CDs and subsequent disc-based technology, storing data on magnetic bands of tape has largely disappeared from the public’s eye. The technology is so far removed, that in some ...

There is little risk of the government exposing personal data or state secrets by reselling its used magnetic storage tapes, the General Accounting Office reported today. The Federal Government is the ...

OVER FIFTY years ago, the existence of government records on magnetic tape brought down a president. In 1971 the Secret Service installed Sony open-reel tape recorders throughout the White House, to ...

PISCATAWAY, N.J. and LOS ANGELES, April 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- GenScript Biotech Corporation, the world's leading provider of CMOS-based DNA synthesis technologies, and Mimulus Corp, the pioneer in ...

Back in the day: Consumers stopped using magnetic tape storage so long ago that many reading this are likely too young to know what it is. However, its ability to store massive amounts of data on ...

You may think that computer tape memories died out before Rubik's cubes came in, but IBM and Fujifilm have teamed up to develop a record-breaking new sixth-generation tape storage system that can ...