Plasmon Restructures as New
Company
Colorado
Springs, Colo - October 23, 2008 - Newly formed Plasmon Holding LLC
announced today that it has completed a management buyout and organisational
restructuring of assets from Plasmon PLC, a trusted source of data
archiving systems for over 20 years.
The transaction is intended
to capitalise and reposition Plasmon over the long term. Under the
restructuring, Plasmon Inc, formerly a US-based subsidiary to the UK company,
will become the worldwide headquarters. The "new" Plasmon will offer
its market leading archiving solutions and services in all global territories.
...Plasmon profile,
gone away storage
companies
...Later:- the new venture failed within
several months - and in January 2009 - the assets were in the hands of
yet another new owner.
Take a look at this article (written by Chris
Mellor, and published in the UK Channel Register) -
Optical
delusion: Plasmon's ignominious end - which concludes "The existence of
a long-term, professional optical archive storage market has been shown to be a
delusion."
Moonwalk Can March Data over to Plasmon's Shiny Media
Australia
- September 29, 2008 -
Moonwalk
today announced that it has partnered with Plasmon on a joint
solution that provides companies using traditional HSM solutions greater control
of their datasets and optimal use of their storage infrastructure without the
associated management headaches.
Moonwalk 6.0 can intelligently move, copy or archive files from
various platforms and file systems to the Plasmon Archive Appliance based on the
business value of the unstructured data under storage.
"Plasmon's
UDO Archive
Appliance complements the Moonwalk environment by providing the natural
repository for infrequently accessed files that must be retained." said
Patrick Dowling, VP of Global Marketing for Plasmon. "Data migrated to the
Archive Appliance is secured on both disk and true WORM UDO media. This strategy
ensures data accessibility, record authenticity, and the 100 year UDO media life
provides long-term access while greatly extending data lifecycles."
Editor's
comments:- a few weeks ago Steven Murphy, President and CEO Plasmon
published an update on the company's
status and restructuring
plans.
Sony Discusses the End of Optical Storage
Editor:-
September 11, 2008 - a recent article on Electricpig quotes a senior
Sony executive predicting the end of optical storage media.
After
Blu-Ray - there is no further roadmap for shiny coated plastic storage disks. |
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| Call/Recall
Announces Laser Diode Partner |
San Diego – May 27, 2008 -
Nichia Corp and Call/Recall, Inc have agreed to jointly develop
a high-capacity optical disc recording and playback systems.
The
platform is designed around Nichia commercially available
violet and blue laser
diodes and Call/Recall's terabyte media.
Call/Recall
anticipates being able to release a Blu-ray compatible disk as well as a
backward compatible player able to read Blu-ray disks as well as Call/Recall's
higher capacity formats. Call/Recall also intends to use the technology for the
enterprise market for the archiving of corporate information.
...Call/Recall
profile, optical storage
drives
PowerFile's Archive Facilitator Picks
Jukebox Hits
SANTA CLARA, Calif -
February 26, 2008 - PowerFile Inc. today introduced the Archive
Facilitator which automatically discovers, classifies and moves fixed content
to the company's (optical) Active Archive Appliance.
Typically unstructured data represents 70% of the information being
stored on expensive primary storage and up to 80% of that data has not been
accessed or modified in more than a year. As a result some organizations are
turning to active archiving to better align data with storage based on business
value. PowerFile's
Archive
Facilitator is scalable and and manages tens of terabytes per appliance
and hundreds of terabytes per enterprise deployment. ...PowerFile profile
PowerFile
Introduces 500 Terabytes per Kilowatt Archive
SANTA
CLARA, CA - August 27, 2007 - PowerFile today announced the Active
Archive Appliance Enterprise Edition, claimed to be the most energy efficient
system for online data storage.
PowerFile's 3rd generation
appliance incorporates Blu-ray Disc technology to give 70TB in a 42U rack
enclosure. This can scale to a fully configured 120TB appliance that consumes
less than 240W of power.
"This is a great example of 'Blu'
actually contributing to a 'green' product." said Robin Sweeten, Group
Manager, Strategic Marketing for
Panasonic who supply
the Blu-ray Disc technology.
PowerFile has developed patented and
patent-pending technologies that give the A3 Enterprise Edition industry-leading
data integrity that it claims is 1,000 times more reliable than enterprise
tape or disk-based
RAID. The A3 provides
10TB of archive capacity and 2TB of dynamic cache at an MSRP of $41,900, with
10TB Expansion Kits available at an MSRP of $27,900. ...PowerFile profile,
optical libraries,
Green Storage
Digistore Passes 100,000 CD Libraries
Milestone
Wilmington,
Del - July 9, 2007 -Digistore Solutions today announced that it has
reached a major milestone with the shipment of its 100,000th unit in its
Centurion line of CD storage devices since the company's launch at the end of
2003.
The company's Centurion CD provides users with a 100-disc capacity
per unit. By stacking multiple CCD units, companies can manage as many as
127,000 discs from a single-user interface, enabling a safe and convenient
method of data storage and retrieval.
...Digistore
profile, optical
libraries | |
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Optical
has passed the test of time
"End users have become considerably more concerned about
their data and how to comply with the onslaught of regulations regarding that
data. Optical has passed the test of time and litigation and has proven itself
as the gold standard for data protection."
Quote from Roy
Slicker, Pegasus President and CEO
Pegasus Disk Technologies
from a featured press release | |
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the
Impact of Compliance on Archival Storage Strategies - article by Plasmon
It's
difficult enough protecting and archiving your data so that it's available to
the right people at the right time (and cost). But now that's only part of the
problem. With so many new rules and regulations which prescribe how you should
destroy data records at the appropriate time - how do you guarantee that they
stay deleted?
Archiving data on the wrong kind of media could mean you
run the risk of breaking the law. Advances in the
data recovery
industry, and the future cohabitation of storage search-engines both mean that
Compliance Officers have to pay much more attention to the ways in which data is
dispersed and disposed of in different types of media.
This article
summarizes the strengths and weaknesses of currently available market
technologies. ...
read the article,
...Plasmon profile,
Optical Libraries | |
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