In Balance IT, Tape Ark To Turn Decades of Healthcare Tape Into Cloud-Ready Data
OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill., April 14, 2026 — In Balance IT Solutions and Tape Ark have secured a major multi-year contract with a leading healthcare organization in Chicago. This initiative will unlock decades of critical legacy data currently stored on physical tape, making it accessible for modern clinical and operational use.
Healthcare organizations manage massive volumes of data for patient care and compliance, yet much of it is on aging tape systems. In Balance IT will leverage Tape Ark’s specialized technology to migrate these legacy archives into Microsoft Azure. This transition ensures long-term security and immediate data accessibility while eliminating the risks and costs of outdated physical infrastructure.
“This contract demonstrates the growing urgency organizations face in unlocking the value of historical data stored on tape,” said Guy Holmes, CEO of Tape Ark. “We are proud to support In Balance IT as they help this major healthcare organization modernize its data infrastructure. Our partnership ensures that decades of important information can be preserved, protected, and made accessible for healthcare services, AI and LLM development.”
As a certified member of the Tape Ark Global Partner Network, In Balance IT will oversee the full migration lifecycle — from legacy tape ingestion to cloud deployment — ensuring compliance requirements are met throughout the process.
“We are excited to secure this significant engagement with one of Chicago’s leading healthcare organizations,” said Tim Currie, chief strategy officer of In Balance IT. “We have a customer that today has tapes in a vault. When we’re done, they will have data in Azure cloud and available to an LLM. That’s an exciting transformation.”
As healthcare organizations face growing pressure to leverage historical data for AI, compliance, and patient outcomes, many are discovering that the information they need is already in their possession — locked on aging tape. Engagements like this one show that unlocking it is not only possible, but faster and more straightforward than most expect.
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