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 ...

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 ...

Multicolored emissions could allow storage of more than one bit of information per data point. What began accidentally could be the foundation for a revolutionary approach to optical data storage. By ...

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 ...

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 ...

Physicists have developed a technique with the potential to enhance optical data storage capacity in diamonds. This is possible by multiplexing the storage in the spectral domain. Physicists at The ...

Optical discs like Blu-ray are losing favor, but Sony and Panasonic don’t seem to care. The companies have cranked up the storage capacity on optical media to a stunning 3.3TB. That’s a big advance in ...

Delivering “BLOBs” (Binary Large Objects) such as MRI data carries high-bandwidth requirements. This, plus the ‘networked’ nature of healthcare (campus-based and metro networks) often means that ...