Storing data on magnetic tape might seem more antique than cutting edge, but with more data in the world than ever, it could still be one of the most energy efficient and secure storage methods we ...

Sony and IBM have collaborated on a new Magnetic Tape Storage Technology. In a press release yesterday Sony announced the development of tape storage with the industry's highest areal recording ...

IBM announced the general availability of the industry’s first magnetic tapes and drives based on the LTO-9 Ultrium specification for massive data capacity and resilience. The Linear Tape-Open (LTO) 9 ...

LTO is the largest volume magnetic tape. Magnetic tape is mostly used in cold storage archive and backup applications because of the latency in bringing tapes to tape drives in order to read them.

There was a time, in computing's not-so-distant past, where magnetic tape was the best way to back up large amounts of data. In the mid-90s, tape could store tens or hundreds of gigabytes, while hard ...