Optical storage and even DNA storage could be a significant contender for the digital archive market in the coming decades.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. During recent prior year projections for digital storage and memory we have not talked much about digital storage using optical ...

ALEXANDRIA, VA—The cloud continues to be hyped as an ideal environment for long-term video storage, but at this year’s NAB several technological advances suggest that cartridge and optical storage ...

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 ...

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 ...

Spectra Logic, a global leader in data management and storage solutions, is unveiling the Spectra OSW-2400 Optical SAS Switch, a groundbreaking innovation in data center tape storage connectivity.

Spectra Logic has launched its OSW-2400 Optical SAS Switch to support data center tape storage connectivity. According to the company, the new switch provisions SAS fabrics as a cost-effective ...

There was a time, in computing's not-so-distant past, where magnetic tape was the best way to back up large amounts of data. In the mid-90s, tape could store tens or hundreds of gigabytes, while hard ...

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 ...