The now-defunct DOGE initiative tried to get rid of magnetic tapes for alleged efficiency reasons, but the "legacy" storage ...

Magnetic tape is one of the oldest technologies for electronic data storage. While tape has largely been displaced as a primary and backup storage medium, it remains well suited for archiving because ...

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 ...

As data growth increases, ramping up storage capacity and costs, older backup methods once presumed obsolete -- such as magnetic tape -- are a saving grace. But was tape ever truly dead? Hardly. For a ...

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 ...

What seems at first like a logical move to modernize the government's archives may in fact be an ill-advised decision. Reading time 2 minutes Elon Musk’s government efficiency initiative continues to ...

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 ...