Tape Ark is a privately owned company headquartered in Australia. Founded in 2017, it employs approximately 20 individuals and reported $2.9M in revenue as of 2023. The company specializes in broadcast professional services, with a core focus on migrating data to the cloud.
On March 16, 2026, Tape Ark successfully decoded a historically significant dataset for the National Archives of Australia, recovering information from magnetic tapes dating back over fifty years to the 1970 Aboriginal Population Register. This follows broader discussions on March 12 regarding how hyperscale data migration is reshaping the energy world by making previously inaccessible seismic and subsurface datasets, representing trillions of dollars, available. On March 10, Tape Ark detailed its five-year journey with Microsoft Project Silica, having performed a Proof of Concept for the archiving technology five years earlier. Earlier in March, on March 5, the company highlighted its partnership with a global pharmaceutical organization to modernize 23 petabytes of legacy tape archives, which eliminated 14 data centers. Previously, on January 14, Tape Ark appointed Chris Forrester as U.S. Operations Manager, effective January 1, 2026, to lead U.S. operations and strengthen delivery quality across regions.
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