Imation
Enters the SSD Market
OAKDALE,
Minn - March 10, 2008 - Imation Corp. entered the SSD market today with
solid state drives powered by Mtron.
Imation's SSD
portfolio includes the MOBI 3000 Series for high performance end users, and the
PRO 7000 Series for enterprise, corporate and IT infrastructure applications.
"Many storage applications can benefit from the increased performance,
reliability and power savings that SSDs are able to provide in the computing and
enterprise environment," said Jeff Janukowicz, research manager,
IDC. "Shipments of SSD
solutions, such as those in Imation's SSD solutions meet the requirements for
this performance-demanding storage market are expected to increase at a 73% CAGR
through 2011."
...Imation profile,
...Mtron profile
Editor's
comments:- oeming Mtron's high performance
flash SSDs is a
good business move for Imation - which has a well known (50 years old) storage
brand. The SSD market
provides Imation with a shimmering
Stargate like escape route
out of the shrinking
tape backup market.
50% Growth in UDO Archive Appliance Sales
CAMBRIDGE,
England - August 29, 2007 - Plasmon today announced a 50%
year-on-year growth in the company's UDO Archive Appliance sales.
According
to Plasmon's CEO, Rod Powell this is as a result of corporate governance and
regulatory compliance standards, e-discovery and increasing demand for secure,
searchable, long-term archives.
Plasmon has also seen solid increases
in the overall market adoption of its UDO2 technology with the certification and
shipment of UDO2 by GE Healthcare, AGFA, IBM and Konica Minolta. ...Plasmon profile,
Storage Media,
article:- Bare Media
Exposed - Looking at the Contenders for Optical Media Archiving
SmartDisk Exits Hard Disk Market
TOKYO
- July 5, 2007 - Verbatim Corp announced today the purchase of
substantially all of the assets of SmartDisk Corp's external hard drive
and digital imaging business.
NPD reported that
SmartDisk had a 16% market share in the US retail portable drive market in 2006.
IDC predicts more than 6
million external hard
drives will be shipped in 2008, up 58% from 2006. By combining its
worldwide brand strength and its new assets, Verbatim will offer an expanded
line of optical,
magnetic and
flash products that meet
the diverse storage needs of consumers and businesses around the globe.
...SmartDisk profile,
...Verbatim profile
Call/Recall Aims Death Ray at UDO / Blu-ray
Optical Archiving
SAN
DIEGO - June 27, 2007 - Call/Recall Inc. today announced availability
of licensing for its patented optical storage technology that can provide 40x
the capacity of Blu-ray and over
200x the capacity of DVD technology.
Call/Recall's
innovative optical storage technology utilizes a 2-photon recording process to
record bits in a 3 dimensional volume in a disk. Multiple layers of information
can be stored with less than a 10-micron layer of separation, effectively
allowing the equivalent of 250 conventional DVD layers to be put onto one DVD.
Call/Recall's technology uses affordable, commercially available,
off-the-shelf components. This approach allows optical hardware manufacturers to
extend the roadmap of their existing technologies, such as DVD and Blu-ray while
maintaining backward compatibility with their installed base.
...Call/Recall
profile
TDK Launches New Tape Cartridge
GARDEN
CITY, NY - May 7, 2007 - TDK Corp announced that it will launch sales
of its DAT 160 Data Cartridge, in June.
The DC-DAT160 offers
160GB capacity (with data compression) and is the world's first DAT 160 media to
pass compliance testing by the DAT Manufacturers Group. TDK will concurrently
launch sales of its DAT Cleaning Cartridge II. DAT 160 is a 6th generation
data cartridge which is backwards compatible with DDS-4 and DAT 72.
...TDK profile,
Storage Media,
Backup Software,
Tape drives
Maxell Launches World's 1st iVDR Hard Drive
Tokyo - March 20, 2007 -
Hitachi Maxell, Ltd. today announced the launch of the world's first
iVDR compatible removable hard disk drive capable of recording copyright
protected High Definition content without quality loss.
The new
drive 5,400 RPM drive fits in the palm of the hand and provides 160G of data
storage and a data transfer rate of 540Mbit/s. Employing
SAFIA copyright
protection technology the new is being launched for use with
Hitachi's
Wooo flat-panel TV, which is the world's first appliance employing iVDR
slots.
The iVDR Consortium was
established in March 2002 and now consists of more than 50 companies promoting
the iVDR standard. ...Maxell
profile, Removable
Disk Drives, Storage
Industry Trade Associations
Abcron Introduces PlayO 16X DVD+/-R
CITY OF
INDUSTRY, Calif. - November 28, 2006 - Abcron Corp today announced
the addition of PlayO brand 16X DVD+/-R discs to its line of optical media
products.
The new discs have a storage capacity of 4.7GB (enough
for 2 hours of DVD
quality home movies). The time it takes to write a DVD varies with the writing
speed of the burner, the amount and type of information being written and the
writing mode of the burner. On average, the transfer rate for 16X DVD is
21.13MB/sec. and it takes about 5 minutes to write 4.7GB of content to a PlayO
16X DVD. A 60 pack cakebox (50 discs plus 10 bonus discs) retails for $27.99.
...Abcron profile
New for Movie Makers - UDO-DMD
Amsterdam,
Netherlands - September 11, 2006 - at IBC today Mitsubishi Kagaku
Media, Memory Tech Corp and Plasmon announced an alliance
to manufacture and promote a new optical storage format called Ultra Density
Optical – Digital Master Disk.
UDO-DMD has been designed
specifically for the secure distribution and long-term storage of high value HD
DVD content between authoring studios and disc mastering facilities.
Many
studios today depend on magnetic
tape and
RAID systems to transport
and archive valuable content. Video content is often lost on tapes because they
are fragile for transport and unreliable for long-term storage, and managing
rapidly growing data on RAID is insecure and cost prohibitive for archives that
must be maintained for many years. By contrast, UDO-DMD provides an extremely
stable media housed in a robust cartridge that has a data life of over 50
years. It is immune to damage from magnetic fields and x-ray exposure and can be
safely stored in a very wide range of temperature and humidity conditions.
...Mitsubishi Kagaku
Media profile, ...Plasmon
profile, Removable
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the
Dangers of Removable Storage Media - article by Pointsec
In
the early
James
Bond films of the 1960s, viewers were introduced to an array of implausible
(at the time) portable high tech spy gadgets. Nowadays we know from our own
everyday experience that something the size of a cigarette lighter can actually
be a video camera with its own wireless internet access.
The
proliferation of miniature high capacity storage devices creates a serious
problem for commercial and national security. This article provides an up to
date picture of the intrinsic dangers posed by current removable storage
technologies. ...read
the article, ...Pointsec
profile, Security,
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DVDs Have a Long Term Future as Digital Storage? - article |
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"CDs have already been around for 20 years - so that
may seem like forever and you may think that DVDs too will still be around just
as long. But my own view is that these are merely short term stepping stones to
something else in the same way that scrolls and loose collections of paper were
a transient phase which gave way to the bound book." ...read the article | |
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How Big is
the Market for Optical Storage Media?
According to a report
by BCC (RGB-317 Data
Storage Media: Materials, Technologies, and Markets) The optical storage media
is expected to reach $30.6 billion by 2010.
Emerging optical
storage media such as Blu-ray and HD-DVD, holographic and near-field storage are
not significant factors currently, but by 2010, they are expected to account for
as much as 4% of the market.
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