The Massachusetts-based DATAmatic Division of Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Company sold one of its room-sized DATAmatic 1000 systems to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, where it was installed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Magnetic tape data storage required more than ever 201 gigabits per square inch has been squeezed onto a prototype ‘sputtered magnetic tape’ It's been developed by Sony Storage Media Solutions When ...

TSUKUBA, Japan - 02 Aug 2017: IBM (NYSE: IBM) Research scientists have achieved a new world record in tape storage – their fifth since 2006. The new record of 201 Gb/in 2 (gigabits per square inch) in ...

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 ...

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 ...