Its's no easy life being in the computer tape business ... tape drives but costs the same or even less. Exabyte's VXA-2, the second generation of this technology, holds 80 gigabytes, or 8 billion ...

Although new generations of LTO tape have historically arrived every two to three years, snags in the development process meant it took four years for LTO-9 products to become available.

Magnetic tape was invented in 1928, and first used for storing computer data by the Univac 1 in 1951 ... The IBM TS1160 is a brand new format for tape libraries: the sixth generation tape technology, ...