Tape is here to rescue big data

Tape is a technology most of us stopped using decades ago, but now preserves some of the world’s most important data.

This week Quartz News travels to Switzerland to understand why tech companies and research institutions like CERN, the largest particle physics lab in the world, rely on massive libraries filled with magnetic tapes.

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