A Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) social media post boasts of the elimination of tape data storage facilities at ...

President Trump's DOGE team, headed by Elon Musk, claims to have saved $1 million by ditching 70-year-old tape data storage.

In February 2025, Musk criticized a federal contract with Iron Mountain to store physical records, labeling it a "time warp" ...

Unless you handle the backups for a large corporation, bank, or government entity, you likely haven’t stored much data to tape recently. But magnetic storage used to be fairly mainstream back in ...

Those who were around for the pre-floppy days of computer mass storage were likely to have made the mistake of slipping a cassette tape containing data into a stereo tape deck. Instead of hearing ...

What seems at first like a logical move to modernize the government's archives may in fact be an ill-advised decision.

These 10 data storage startups are tackling disaster recovery and archiving, data protection, and high-speed and secure file sharing -- and even cutting the cost and upping the performance of ...