rumours of the magnetic tape’s demise have been greatly exaggerated.
According to an Information Age article
<http://www.information-age.com/industry/hardware/123458439/tape-storage-not-dead-4-reasons-why-world-needs-it-more-ever>
from September 2014, all ten of the world’s biggest banks and telecoms
firms, as well as eight of the world’s ten biggest pharmaceutical
companies, are tape users. And as trends like big data pick up steam,
there’s more interest than ever for organisations to invest in low-cost,
high-volume storage for offline data.

For all their advantages, though, tape archives need to be looked after. It
can be tempting to think that business records are out of sight, out of
mind once they’re filed away in a format proven to last upwards of decades,
but this is a mistake. The reasons for creating a tape archive aren’t
trivial – regulatory compliance, mainly, and disaster recovery – and you
don’t want to discover at the critical moment that your records are patchy.

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