Imagine being able to fit the text of 330 million books in the palm of your hand. With #IBM 's new #magnetictape storage prototype, that is now possible. On Wednesday, IBM researchers unveiled a new tape storage solution that holds 330 TB of uncompressed data (roughly equivalent to the text of 330 million books) on a palm-sized cartridge. IBM announced the achievement via a press release after presenting it at the 28th Magnetic Recording Conference in Tsukuba, Japan  Tape is known as a fairly standard backup solution in enterprise storage, and is also used for disaster recovery and other implementations, IBM fellow Evangelos Eleftheriou said in the release. However, Eleftheriou noted, it's evolving to be used more in the cloud as well.
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