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Talk to anyone who worked in information technology in the 1990s or even earlier, and the mere mention of ‘tape backup’ might elicit a strong reaction. Promoted as an economically sound and reliable solution to secure critical data, at some point, most IT staff had a bad experience. It was a catalogue of drives that ate tapes, tapes that worked fine until it was time to restore from them, and backups that took all night only to fail. It would be accurate to say that the experience scarred some IT people, and your reviewer is one of those. Realising that tape technology had potential that was being squandered by numerous incompatible formats and technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM, and Quantum formed the LTO consortium. LTO being Linear Tape-Open, an open standard for magnetic tape technology that enabled many companies to work within its open framework to make storage solutions that were affordable, reliable, and suitable for enterprise computing environments. Fast forwa...