The company worked with Fujifilm to create the tape. It represents an 88-fold improvement over current “Tape-Open 6” class tape cartridges that hold 2.5TB of data and a 22-fold improvement on IBM’s ...

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 ...

This year, 2012, digital plastic substrate magnetic tape turns 60 years old. The IBM 726 digital tape drive was introduced in 1952 to provide larger amounts of digital storage for computers, in ...

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 ...