Network World, Friday, September 4th, 2026
AI Data Boom Gives Tape Storage A New Lease On Life
Tape capacity shipments jumped 57% year over year in Q1 2026 as AI data volumes revive the medium.
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StorageReview, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
LTO Tape Shipments Jump 57% Year Over Year In Q1 2026 On LTO-10 40TB Rollout And Archival Demand
LTO Tape Shipments Up 57% in Q1 2026 as AI and Archive Demand Accelerate
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How-To Geek, Thursday, April 9th, 2026
The Storage Format That Costs $5 Per Terabyte-But Requires A $10,000 Drive
The challenge of keeping data safe and accessible will probably never truly end. It seems that every medium has some major caveats when it comes to cold storage, but if you spend some time researching the problem, one format keeps coming up: tape.
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StorageNewsletter.com, Monday, April 6th, 2026
FujiFilm North America Announces U.S. Availability of 40TB LTO Ultrium Gen 10 Data Cartridge
FujiFilm North America Corp., data storage solutions division, announced availability in the United States of the FujiFilm LTO Ultrium 10 (40TB) data cartridge, the company's highest data storage capacity of its LTO Ultrium tape media to date.
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StorageNewsletter.com, Wednesday, November 19th, 2025
LTO Program Announces New 40Tb LTO-10 Tape Cartridge Specifications
Breakthrough capacity by using advanced base film technology known as Aramid, and refreshes roadmap for ultra-high density, AI-ready archival storage
more → ITPro, Tuesday, November 18th, 2025
Magnetic Tape Is Going Strong In The Age Of AI, And It's About To Get Even Better
It might date back to the 1950s, but Magnetic tape storage is still relevant in 2025
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Blocks & Files, Thursday, November 13th, 2025
LTO-10 Bumped To 40 TB As Future Tape Capacities Get Cut
The Linear Tape Open (LTO) consortium has reacted to higher capacity disk drives and SSDs with a 33 percent LTO-10 raw capacity upgrade to 40 TB and a target downgrade for the LTO-14 generation of 365 TB from the prior 576 TB.
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StorageNewsletter, Monday, August 25th, 2025
LTO Program Introduces Gen10 of Up to 30TB Tape Technology
The LTO Program Technology Provider Companies (TPCs), Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM Corporation and Quantum Corporation, have publicly released the specifications of LTO Ultrium format Gen 10, which is available for licensing.
more → Blocks & Files, Tuesday, July 29th, 2025
Why LTO-10 Fell Short On Speed And Backward Compatibility
LTO-10 tape was an advance on LTO-9 but not as much as expected with no increase in data I/O speed and loss of backward compatibility. We look at why this took place.
more → The Register, Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025
And Now For Our Annual 'Tape Is Still Not Dead' Update
Shipments of tape storage media increased again in 2024, according to HPE, IBM, and Quantum - the three companies that back the Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Format.
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HPCWire, Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025
LTO Tape Shipments Reach 176.5 EB in 2024, Marking 15.4% Growth
The LTO Program Technology Provider Companies (TPCs), Hewlett Packard Enterprise, International Business Machines Corporation and Quantum Corporation, have released their annual tape media shipment report, detailing year-over-year shipments through the fourth quarter of 2024.
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SiliconANGLE, Tuesday, July 1st, 2025
Spectra Logic Brings Tape Technology Into The Modern Era
Tape drives might seem like old news, but according to Spectra Logic Corp., they're a part of the modern data solution. Now reaching its 25th anniversary, the company focuses on tape-based solutions with an eye toward current cloud and artificial intelligence-based trends.
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StorageNewsletter.com, Friday, May 30th, 2025
Quantum Adds LTO-10 Support For Scalar Tape Libraires
Quantum Corp. announced support for LTO Ultrium format Gen 10 full-height tape drives in its Scalar tape libraries, including iScalar i7 RAPTOR, Scalar i6, and Scalar i6000 systems.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Friday, May 30th, 2025
IBM Announces Upcoming LTO-10 Tape Integration, Drive and Media
IBM Corp. has announced support for IBM LTO-10 full height tape drives on Diamondback, and TS4500 tape libraries and new LTO-10 tape media.
more → HPCWire, Wednesday, May 28th, 2025
Spectra Logic Advances Perpetual Archive Strategy With Enterprise-Wide LTO-10 Support
Spectra Logic, a global leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced enterprise-wide support for LTO-10 tape technology across its full portfolio of tape libraries*, including the Spectra TFinity, Spectra T950, Spectra Cube, and Spectra Stack models.
more → Techradar.pro, Monday, April 7th, 2025
US Government Says It Will Save $1M/Year By Getting Rid Of Magnetic Tape - So Is There Still A Place For Tape In 2025?
DOGE is getting rid of magnetic tape - but what will be the effect?
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The Backup Wrap-Up, Monday, March 31st, 2025
Cloud vs Tape Throwdown: Which Is Better For Archiving?
In this episode of The Backup Wrap-Up, we look at the cloud vs tape debate for active archives. The conversation was sparked by a LinkedIn post claiming tape libraries are the only robots not making things easier in 2025, suggesting cloud is superior to tape for active archives.
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StorageNewsletter.com, Monday, October 14th, 2024
Brookhaven's Scientific Data And Computing Center Reaches 300PB Of On Tapes
Largest compilation of nuclear and particle physics data in USA, all easily accessible - with plans for much more.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Thursday, August 15th, 2024
IBM: S3 Glacier Storage Classes Bring Benefits Of Tape Into Mainstream
Every industry stores massive amounts of archival data, with new creation of data accelerating.
more → Blocks&Files, Wednesday, May 29th, 2024
Let Them Eat Tape: Multi-Decade Information Storage Problems
Customers are sometimes faced with costly and sometimes unexpected permanent withdrawal fees when ending digital tape cartridge vaulting contracts. What lessons should be learned from this and how should organizations deal with multi-decade information retention?
more → ITProToday, Tuesday, May 28th, 2024
Magnetic Tape Storage Has Found A New Lease Of Life With A Record 152.9 Exabytes Shipped Worldwide In 2023
Magnetic tape storage is back in vogue thanks to the rise of generative AI and ransomware, according to new research
more → The Register, Monday, May 27th, 2024
Tape Is So Dead, 152.9 EB Of LTO Media Shipped Last Year
Tape - as a digital storage medium - has been considered dead for your correspondent's entire 29-year career. But that didn't stop manufacturers behind the Linear Tape-Open (LTO) standard shipping 152.9* exabytes worth of the stuff last year.
more → StorageReview.com, Thursday, May 23rd, 2024
LTO Program Releases Annual Tape Media Shipment Report 2023 And It Might Surprise You!
Many IT professionals thought a few technologies would have (or maybe should have) expired by now. One (and we have written about it several times) is Fibre Channel. The other is tape, specifically LTO Ultrium format tape.
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StorageNewsletter.com, Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024
Record of 153EB of LTO Compressed Capacity Shipped WW in 2023
The LTO Program Technology Provider Companies (TPCs), Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM Corporation and Quantum Corporation, released their annual tape media shipment report, detailing Y/Y shipments through 4Q23.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Thursday, May 16th, 2024
How To Recover Data From LTO-9 Tape
Data is an invaluable asset and millions of users and services are creating large amounts of data every day and storing such massive amount of data is a challenge. For this, enterprises have been deploying large data silos for storing and managing huge chunks of data with ease.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Friday, April 19th, 2024
Spectra Logic Introduces Lumos Library Management Software With Two New Tape Libraries
Based on extensible architecture that delivers greater functionality, reliability and as much as 20x performance of previous-gen of library management software
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Thursday, April 11th, 2024
Nine Reasons Why Tapes Represent New Game With New Rules
This updated report provides a focus on how modern magnetic data tape is solving for IT challenges including runaway data growth, economic pressure, sustainability issues, cybercrime and the reliability that's needed for the long term preservation of data. And that data that has also grown dramatically in value as we learn to analyze it and derive competitive advantage from it.
more → techradar.pro, Thursday, April 11th, 2024
A 30,000TB Tower Powered By A 70-Year-Old Technology - Spectra Logic Proves That Data Tape Still Has A Place In An AI World With Storage System That Can Handle Thousands Of Lto-9 Tapes
A 30,000TB tower powered by a 70-year-old technology - Spectra Logic proves that data tape still has a place in an AI world with storage system that can handle thousands of LTO-9 tapes News
more → Blocks&Files, Thursday, March 21st, 2024
Quantum Announces i7 Raptor Tape Library For Hyperscalers
Scalar tape library supplying Quantum has made an early announcement that an i7 Raptor library is coming, designed for hyperscale customers' AI workloads.
more → Enterprise Storage Forum, Wednesday, October 11,2023
Tape Storage In 2023: What Do You Need To Know?
Tape backup - writing data to magnetic tape - is an older medium that has been around for decades. Data storage innovations from disk to flash to the cloud offering faster speeds, higher capacities, and more scalable solutions led many in the industry to declare tape obsolete as far back as the early 2000s. But tape usage continues to play a part in enterprise digital storage.
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StorageNewsletter.com, Friday, September 29,2023
Tape Primed For Rise Of Secondary Storage
As the widespread impact of Covid-19 eases, new concerns have emerged. These include geo-political tensions, global warming, a fragile supply chain, prolonged inflation, higher interest rates, and rising transportation, health care, food and energy prices.
more → IEEE Spectrum, Saturday, September 16,2023
Tape Storage Might Be Computing's Climate Savior
Data storage has long contributed a significant portion of the computing industry's carbon footprint, even representing as much as 1.8 percent of the United States' total electricity consumption in 2014, according to a report by the Berkeley National Laboratory.
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Search Data Backup, Friday, September 8,2023
150 TB IBM Tapes Hit The Market
IBM's new enterprise tape drive brings 50 TB of native capacity and 150 TB compressed for archiving large amounts of data and is a sign of investment in an old storage medium.
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StorageNewsletter.com, Monday, August 28,2023
IBM TS1170 Tape Drive 70F and 70S for TS4500 Deliver Up to 50TB Native Capacity
IBM TS1170 tape drives offer organizations a way to improve capacity, deliver fast access to data, and secure long-term retention for less than the cost of disk or flash solutions. It also helps protect investments in tape automation by offering compatibility with existing automation.
more → Blocks&Files, Wednesday, August 23,2023
50TB IBM tape drive more than doubles LTO-9 capacity
IBM has announced its latest TS1170 tape drive with 50TB cartridges, more than 2.5 times larger than LTO-9 cartridges.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Friday, June 9,2023
Tape Market To Reach $9.39 Billion By 2030
Tape Storage Market Size is projected to reach $9.39 billion by 2030; Growing at a CAGR of 7.8%
more → Search Data Backup, Thursday, June 1,2023
LTO Tape Shipments Continued To Grow In 2022
Driven by data growth and the uptick in ransomware, tape continues to excel as a storage medium despite newer kids on the block. Experts don't see that trend ending anytime soon.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Wednesday, May 24,2023
48.3EB Uncompressed Capacity Shipped on LTO in 2022
The LTO Program Technology provider companies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, International Business Machines Corporation and Quantum Corporation, released their annual tape media shipment report, detailing Y/Y shipments through 4Q22
more → SearchStorage, April 17th, 2023
What The New LTO Roadmap Means For Tape Storage
The future of tape is bright, and it should be on every storage manager's shortlist. LTO and its massive current and future capacity have a place among other storage media types.
more → Digital Journal, April 11th, 2023
Tape Storage Market To Reach $9.42 Billion By 2030 Growing At A CAGR Of 7.8%
Allied Market Research published latest research report on 'Tape Storage Market 2023.'
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Blocks & Files, February 15th, 2023
SpectraLogic Targets On-Prem Archive Market
SpectraLogic has announced a Spectra Digital Archive offering for on-premises archiving using its StorCycle, Black Pearl and tape library products.
more → Search Data Backup, December 20th, 2022
Use Magnetic Tape Backup To Ease Storage Capacity Concerns
Does your organization struggle to store and protect all its data? Magnetic tape storage might be a smart, cost-efficient route, as data volumes continue to increase.
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