TOKYO–May 9,2003–Toshiba Corporation announced that it has developed a working prototype of a high-capacity. dual-layer, single-sided, blue-laser-rewritable optical disk. The new disk enjoys key ...

Phase change optical recording is a challenging technology for data storage that is used for CD and DVD rewritable discs. It is based on localized laser induced heating of a thin layer to cause a ...

Nine of the world’s largest electronics companies have taken a joint step towards commercialization of a next-generation optical disk system and with it raised the possibility of a new format battle.

TOKYO — The nine developers of Blu-ray, a rewritable optical disk system, will begin licensing the format next Monday (Feb. 17). Companies planning to develop, make or sell products using the format ...

Makers of new blue laser optical disk technology said this week that they have their sights firmly set on enterprise archiving applications currently handled by magnetic tape and even some nearline ...

Following on from my recent article about archiving, Sony is expanding its Optical Disc Archive system with faster drives and new robot systems enabling Petabytes of storage Last year Sony launched a ...

Need to store large amounts of data quickly? Sony has the backup system you may be looking for with the introduction of its second-generation Optical Disc Archive system. Not only does the system’s ...