While many predicted a world without tapes during the advent of CD players and DVDs—and even more predicted the further decline of tape during the great digital switch—this medium still lives on for a few very solid reasons. Tape is durable, and many businesses work with an if-it’s-not-broken-don’t-fix-it attitude when it comes to recording information.
Tape will outlast digital and CD media that isn’t specially fortified or designed to last, and even then tape will usually still last longer. If you’re looking to ensure long-term archiving of information and easy backups of audio conversations or video events, you can’t do much better than tape. Tape is also one of the ultimate mediums for a write once, read many standard (WORM) of archiving, helping to keep your organization in compliance with government regulations on some forms of data.
Another benefit of tape is that it can provide an incredible air gap in keeping your information safe. Assuming you have a video or audio recording that is digitized, having a taped, offline copy of it will ensure...
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