Current LTO-9 tapes can store 18TB and the LTO roadmap doubles capacity about every 3 years. So this tape tech would be on the same scale as we might expect LTO-14 to offer in 2035.
So unless this is an incredibly radical breakthrough, that’s the timeframe I’d expect for the headline to become a real product.
Note that the article shows a table from IBM claiming they achieved 35TB-per-cartridge capacity in 2010, and that still isn’t something you can buy.
IMHO, partly for marketing bluster, but partly because hardware compression in the tape drive is a useful feature if you don’t want to handle 1000MB/sec of compression workload on the host during backups.
So unless this is an incredibly radical breakthrough, that’s the timeframe I’d expect for the headline to become a real product.
Note that the article shows a table from IBM claiming they achieved 35TB-per-cartridge capacity in 2010, and that still isn’t something you can buy.