{"id":661995,"date":"2026-10-30T19:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T19:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/661995\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T19:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T19:40:11","slug":"fujifilm-to-boost-tape-production-5x-as-ai-fuels-archiving-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/661995\/","title":{"rendered":"Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an announcement released Thursday, Fujifilm said it will invest roughly 10 billion yen (about $63 million) to increase its production capacity fivefold for an unlikely beneficiary of the AI era: magnetic tape.<\/p>\n<p>Fujifilm attributes the surge in archiving demand to the spread of generative AI, which the company remarked is producing \u201cexponential growth\u201d in data needs worldwide. The 5x increase in production capacity will be measured against fiscal year 2025 production levels.<\/p>\n<p>The investment in Fujifilm\u2019s Kanagawa Factory, Odawara site will make it \u201cthe largest investment Fujifilm has made to date in dedicated LTO tape facilities.\u201d The project will run from fiscal years 2026 through 2028 to fund manufacturing expansion and additional personnel, primarily to produce the latest-generation \u201cFUJIFILM LTO Ultrium10\u201d tape.<\/p>\n<p>Mainstream consumers may have abandoned tape decades ago, but the enterprise world never did. Cloud giants rely on tape to back up vast troves of data. Fujifilm\u2019s work with magnetic tape as a data storage medium dates back to the 1950s, and in 2000, the company released its first LTO Ultrium storage tape. In 2011, the company was the first to commercially produce tape with barium ferrite magnetic particles, and in 2025 it debuted the LTO Ultrium10, the first storage solution in the medium to use what the company calls \u201cfine hybrid magnetic particles\u201d by combining barium ferrite with strontium ferrite tech. Each generation of tape (currently Gen 10) has seen meaningful increases in both compressed and uncompressed storage limits.<\/p>\n<p>            <a class=\"cursor-zoom-in\" data-pswp-width=\"2153\" data-pswp-height=\"1217\" data-pswp- data-cropped=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/LTO-Roadmap-2026-HiRes.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n              <img width=\"2153\" height=\"1217\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/LTO-Roadmap-2026-HiRes.jpg\" class=\"fullwidth full\" alt=\"An LTO roadmap graph shows how LTO tape storage capacities have increased with each generation.\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/><br \/>\n            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>              LTO capacity by generation. Gen 10 is the current tech; Gen 11-14 figures are consortium projections for the future.<\/p>\n<p>      LTO capacity by generation. Gen 10 is the current tech; Gen 11-14 figures are consortium projections for the future.<\/p>\n<p>          Credit:<\/p>\n<p>                      <a class=\"caption-credit-link text-gray-400 no-underline hover:text-gray-500\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lto.org\/roadmap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>          LTO.org<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to Fujifilm, \u201cmajor cloud service and data center operators\u201d have been expanding their use of magnetic tape because it can store large data volumes at relatively low cost. Tape backups can be easily disconnected and stored in a drawer, a vault, or a separate facility. Fujifilm highlights the ability to air-gap tape cartridges as a last defense for user data: \u201cGiven the sophistication of cyberattacks, magnetic tape is attracting increasing attention as a means of protecting data from threats such as ransomware.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In an announcement released Thursday, Fujifilm said it will invest roughly 10 billion yen (about $63 million) to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":["post-661995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}