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

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 ...

KIOXIA is attending the Future of Memory and Storage (FMS) conference in Santa Clara, California. The creator of flash memory and the innovative BiCS FLASH 3D technology is showcasing a new prototype ...

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 ...

Researchers at the University of Iowa have discovered a method of converting magnetic data into optical data for free, without external electricity. This is a very big step towards flexible, cheap, ...

Brocade Communications Systems and Nortel Networks announced a partnership Tuesday that they say will improve optical storage technology. Brocade, which makes infrastructure for storage area networks ...

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) have proposed a new type of memory, in ...

Physicists have developed a technique with the potential to enhance optical data storage capacity in diamonds. This is possible by multiplexing the storage in the spectral domain. Physicists at The ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) In a world driven by data, the relentless growth of digital information is pushing existing storage technologies to their limits. Every day, vast amounts of data are generated, ...

Japanese memory manufacturer Kioxia had an intriguing demo on show at Computex this year, in a next-generation "Optical" SSD design. These drives utilize light, rather than electricity, to transfer ...

Glass nanostructures etched using high-intensity femtosecond laser pulses promise to keep vast quantities of data safe for billions of years, describe Peter Kazansky, Ausra Cerkauskaite and Rokas ...

Delivering “BLOBs” (Binary Large Objects) such as MRI data carries high-bandwidth requirements. This, plus the ‘networked’ nature of healthcare (campus-based and metro networks) often means that ...