- 16 | 04 | 2026
In a world obsessed with cloud-first thinking, backup tape has had something of an image problem. Old fashioned. Clunky. Surely we’ve moved on?
Not quite. In fact, some of the most forward-thinking IT and compliance teams in the world are doubling down on tape and the reasons why say a lot about the threat landscape we’re all operating in right now.
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Ransomware doesn’t care how sophisticated your digital infrastructure is. If it can reach your data, it can encrypt it including your cloud backups. An air-gapped tape sitting offsite, physically disconnected from your network, is one of the very few recovery options that a cyberattack simply cannot touch.
That’s not nostalgia. That’s strategy.
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Cloud storage costs scale with your data. Tape doesn’t. For organisations managing large volumes of long-term archival data energy companies, financial institutions, healthcare trusts the economics of tape versus cloud aren’t even close. You get more storage, more control, and significantly lower cost per gigabyte.
And regulators are paying attention
Demonstrating that your critical data exists in an immutable, offsite, physically secured format is increasingly important under may legislative and industry compliance requirements. An air-gapped tape with a documented chain of custody tells a very different compliance story to “it’s somewhere in our cloud environment.
Learn moreThe resilience that makes tape valuable the fact that it’s offline, physical, and separate from your main infrastructure is exactly what makes it easy to neglect. Rotation schedules slip. Documentation gets patchy. Tapes accumulate beyond their useful life. And a tape that hasn’t been rotated, tracked, or properly stored isn’t a safety net it’s a false sense of security.
Secure backup tape storage and rotation is part of something bigger at OASIS our Secured at Every Level approach to information management. Because protecting your organisation’s data isn’t about picking one solution and hoping for the best. It’s about closing every gap, at every stage, across every format your information exists in.
We handle the bigger picture – scheduled collections, secure transit, climate-controlled offsite storage, structured rotation, full audit trail, and certified destruction at end of life. Every tape accounted for. Every movement documented. Every compliance box ticked.
Speak to an expertTape’s renaissance is well deserved. Just make sure yours is in the right hands.
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