Back to the future.

Fujifilm is investing about 10 billion yen to increase its data storage magnetic tape production capacity roughly fivefold at its Odawara site by fiscal 2028, driven by growing AI data archiving demand. It is reportedly the company’s largest tape investment in about 20 years.

The technology many of us considered retired is coming back as a strategic layer. My view: in a world of AI-assisted attacks on everything that is online, a copy that is physically disconnected from the network is one of the strongest protections we have. Tape is cheap per terabyte, lasts for decades and, when the cartridge sits on a shelf, it is air-gapped by design.

Modern resilience is not only about new tools. Sometimes it is about knowing which old ones still work best.

https://www.techradar.com/pro/magnetic-tape-storage-is-seeing-a-second-lease-of-life-thanks-to-ai-and-now-its-largest-manufacturer-is-planning-a-huge-ramp-up-in-production

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