The amount of data you can squeeze onto a hard drive continues to grow by leaps and bounds, with Seagate announcing a 60TB SSD late last year. But thanks to IBM and Sony, tape might still reign ...

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 ...

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 Once dismissed as outdated, tape storage is now being hailed as a ...

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 ...

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Magnetic tape data storage may have been around for more than half a century but systems administrators will be stuck with it for some time yet, according to one of Sun Microsystems' top storage ...

Magnetic tape is seeing something of a revival as a storage medium. The need to protect data against malware, as well as renewed interest in disaster recovery and business continuity, have put tape ...

Magnetic tape storage has a long history as a storage medium, being the primary way to store computer data from the 1960s to the 1980s. More recently, tape has been most closely associated with backup ...

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 ...

Magnetic tape data storage may have been around for more than half a century, but systems administrators will be stuck with it for some time, according to one of Sun Microsystems' top storage ...