Starting while at a Silicon Valley startup, Siros Technologies, we explored an alternative approach extnending current optical disk technologies. Here, a spinning disk is written and read by a focused ...

Today's optical data-storage technologies, such as CD, DVD and Blu-ray, use one-photon-absorption processes for writing and reading information. In particular, a bit of information is recorded ...

Cerabyte recently conducted an experiment that seemed more like a culinary exercise than a technology showcase. The German storage startup plunged a sliver of its archival ...

New optical tech could slash archival costs by 10x or even more Optera Data’s discs could hit 10TB for just $1 - cheaper than ...

Holographic data storage is poised to change the way we write and retrieve data forever. After many years of developing appropriate recording media and optical read–write architectures ...

It appears the main bottleneck currently is getting next-gen data center hardware to support optical storage devices. Once industry compatibility is ready for optical hardware, we can expect ...

Broadband Optical SSDs may be key to development of town-sized mega data centers Opting for optical SSDs allow distance between compute and storage to grow far more The other advantage of going ...

A team of researchers at Keio University in Japan has developed a breakthrough plastic optical fiber (POF) technology that ...

When it comes to high-capacity cold digital storage, it’s hard to go past optical media. Tapes can compete on cost and data density, but falter in longevity. Where an M-Disc might last 100 or ...

A squishy, layered material that dramatically transforms under pressure could someday help computers store more data with ...