Vinyl made a comeback, and now it’s the turn of tape. But this isn’t your mother’s music cassette that’s having a moment. While tape technology may have largely disappeared from our daily lives, it turns out that it’s critical to the cloud. Tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft and some of the world’s biggest research institutions, like NASA, all use tape to securely archive data.
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