What seems at first like a logical move to modernize the government's archives may in fact be an ill-advised decision. reading time 2 minutes Elon Musk’s government efficiency initiative continues to ...
An April 4 U.S. Department of Government Efficiency social post announced that the U.S. General Services Administration IT team “just saved $1M per year by converting 14,000 magnetic tapes (70 year ...
OVER FIFTY years ago, the existence of government records on magnetic tape brought down a president. In 1971 the Secret Service installed Sony open-reel tape recorders throughout the White House, to ...
US GSA has decommissioned 14,000 tapes and an unknown amount of tape drives The data was moved to a new, unknown media platform that appears to have WORM capabilities US GSA claims to save $1M per ...
Why it matters: Many users, including staffers at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), likely consider magnetic tape storage severely outdated. Despite being around for several decades, the ...