The following article on the legality of optical storage was written by and is reprinted with permission of Robert F. Williams, president, Cohasset Associates, Inc., a records management consulting ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University innovators have created technology aimed at replacing Morse code with colored “digital characters” to modernize optical storage. They are confident the ...

Even IT managers can get the blues. Or at least that’s what a gaggle of vendors are hoping as they prepare ultradense optical storage products based on blue-laser technology. Conventional optical ...

TDK recently demo’d an impressive technical achievement: a 10 layer 320 GB optical disk - using standard Blu-ray (BD) drive technology. Too bad it will never be a commercial success. Optical is at the ...

Remember when Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Glacier, a data archiving service, almost 2 years ago? It offered long-term, slow-retrieval (3-5 hours) storage for the then unheard of price of 1¢/GB ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The evolution of recording media continues to keep pace with the increasing storage capacities ...

Folio Photonics innovates in optical data storage for enterprise data centers Your email has been sent At CES 2023, Folio Photonics will reveal an enterprise-grade ...

Sony’s push to get enterprise users to store data on optical discs has received added momentum with its acquisition of a Facebook-linked startup focused on optical storage. Led by former Facebook ...

Sony has acquired Optical Archive Inc. – a company which repurposes Blu-Ray discs for ‘cold’ data storage, using machines best described as giant robotic jukeboxes. It was founded by Frank Frankovsky, ...

If all goes well, the first HyDrive will ship in August 2010 (in South Korea; globally in September) within the 102 Series of Moneual HTPCs, though second-generation devices will scale all the way to ...

Researchers at the University of Rochester have made an optics breakthrough that allows them to encode an entire image's worth of data into a photon, slow the image down for storage, and then retrieve ...