Tape Ark, a privately owned Australian company founded in 2017, provides broadcast professional services. Employing approximately 20 people, the company specializes in data migration to the cloud. In 2023, its revenue was less than $10 million.
Tape Ark announced reaching a major project milestone on February 26, 2025, migrating half an exabyte of cloud data. The company also received a patent for a tape reader, enabling faster, more efficient, and cost-effective data extraction from legacy tape media. A second patent recognized another innovative data management solution, details of which were not specified. Tape Ark's founder and CEO, Guy C. Holmes, was featured in a New Yorker article exploring the potential of DNA data storage. The company's work focuses on modernizing data infrastructure and facilitating the migration of broadcast media, including Grass Valley and other legacy formats, to the cloud. Tape Ark's journey started with an idea to unlock the future of data, driven by the decreasing cost of cloud storage and the increasing need for businesses to modernize their data infrastructure.