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 ...

A recent study released by Northwestern University demonstrated the possibility of using photonic jets to further increase the storage density of optical disc media. Arstechnica: Photonic jets could ...

Significantly boosting the amount of on-disc storage requires a transition to a blue-laser-based system. The publication of this article marks an anniversary of sorts: 20 years (and a few months) ago, ...

All three first-tier Taiwanese optical storage disc makers – Ritek, CMC Magnetics (CMC) and Prodisc Technology – reported year-on-year and month-on-month growth in July revenues, thanks to continuing ...

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 ...

Using high-speed lasers, researchers have created "5D" data storage technology that could allow 500 TB of data to be written to a CD-sized glass disc, according to the Optica society. The technique ...

WASHINGTON — Researchers have developed a fast and energy-efficient laser-writing method for producing high-density nanostructures in silica glass. These tiny structures can be used for long-term five ...

A new type of archival storage technology has been developed with the potential to store a petabyte of data on a CD-sized disc disk yet remain backward-compatible with existing CD and DVD technologies ...

Stop. Take a deep breath. Before my headline gets you all worked up, consider what I’m saying here. The CD and other optical discs, like DVDs and Blu-rays, are obviously going to live on for a while ...

Want to make sure you back something up indefinitely? Then you could do worse than a digital data storage technique that uses laser light to store 360 terabytes of information on nanostructured quartz ...