
Tape Backup in 2025: LTO & 3592 Libraries, Compliance & Buyback Strategies
Data center managers face a never-ending balancing act: keeping data secure, meeting compliance mandates, controlling costs, and avoiding downtime — all while managing the avalanche of data growth. While cloud-first evangelists keep telling you “tape is dead,” the reality inside modern enterprise data centers says otherwise. Tape backup — particularly LTO and 3592 tape libraries — is not only alive but increasingly critical for compliance, risk mitigation, and operational resilience. Yet, too many organizations are failing to follow LTO tape

