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Optical Storage News
Table of Contents

Optical Storage Symposium 2007 Highlights

Market Perspectives on the Data Storage Industry


Photo Archiving: Where Have All Your Digital Photos Gone?


High Capacity Optical Storage Will Blue Laser or Holographic Storage Be the Solution?


New Technology Roundtable Very Large Scale Optical Recording


OSTA December Quarterly Meetings


MPV Mission and Upcoming Meeting


Join Others Interested in Archival Storage at COSAs December Meeting


On the Horizon, by David Bunzel, President
Archivemyphotos.org Goes Live; In Praise of Optical Storage

OSS 2007 Highlights

OSTAs sixth annual Optical Storage Symposium
featured valuable panel discussions from reflections on
the current optical market to the importance of photo
back up, and on to new and future recording
technologies. Summaries of the four main panels are
provided in this newsletter, and many of the
presentations are available for download at
http://www.osta.org/oss/agenda.htm
.

Market Perspectives on the
Data Storage Industry
This panel, with representatives from IBM Storage, NPD
Group, SanDisk and NetApp, addressed major storage
market concerns including the phenomenal growth of
data to be stored; the critical nature of archiving data
and disaster recovery, and key issues including
compliance, data security and managing TCO and
energy costs. The panel also reviewed the market
outlook for disk drives, optical storage, NAND flash, and
opportunities for optical storage in archival applications.
(
Read more
)
Photo Archiving: Where Have All Your
Digital Photos Gone?
With the transition to digital photography, the use and
storage of photo images has changed dramatically. This
panel discussed alternatives available to protect users
photo collections. Photos are no longer saved in a
shoebox or an album, but typically on someones
computer. The HDD is the main repository for digital
images, but few users understand the vulnerability of this
technology and that their whole photo collection can
disappear in an instant if the hard drive fails. Photo
archiving is a concept the industry needs to understand
and end users need to embrace. The panel discussed
best practices for archiving, including services for
consumers that will create archival DVDs (or other
media) from prints or digital image and video files.
(Read
more)


High Capacity Optical Storage
Will Blue Laser or Holographic Storage be the
Solution?

A new chapter for optical may be opening with the
commercialization of blue laser formats and holographic
storage, as well as a new wave of optical systems
featuring library and RAID type options. The panel
discussed market drivers and applications, a market
review of todays consumer and professional storage
alternatives, and an in-depth review of current and future
high capacity optical technology. For a summary,
click
here.
The information-packed presentation can be
downloaded from the OSTA website at
<
http://www.osta.org/oss/pdf/presentations07/Johnson.pdf
>.


New Technology Roundtable
The coming wave of very large-scale optical
recording

This panel discussed the next big wave of optical
recording technology providing very large-scale
recording capability. Executives representing upcoming
technologies gave an overview of their innovations,
which are designed to deliver from hundreds of
gigabytes to terabytes of data in single disk or other
novel compact configurations. Also find out about the

Optical Storage
News next innovation of applying recordable DVD technology
in a way that will impact all of us as consumers.

Emerging technologies featured included:

Maxell Corp.s Stacked Volumetric Optical Discs (SVOD)
- New large capacity optical disk cartridges for archival
data storage. Planned products include a 1TB Blue
laser SVOD using 20 discs @ 50GB per disc in a 5.25-
inch cartridge and 5TB Blue laser SVOD using 100 discs
@50GB per disc. (
Maxell presentation
)

MemPiles TeraDisc Technology - a two-photon, high-
density optical storage medium and drive technology
enabling >1TB cost-effective and durable archiving
storage on a 120mm disc. The roadmap calls for
500GB, 1TB and 5TB capacities on a single TeraDisc.
(
MemPile presentation
)

InPhase Tapestry300r A 300GB holographic video
disc recorder that emulates MO WORM and LTO Tape
drives that the company is promoting as the worlds first
commercial holographic drive. (
InPhase presentation
)

IntelligentDisc, Inc.s All in One PC on an Optical Disk, a
rewritable volume on a bootable optical disk. Provides
very high security optical storage for enterprise,
government, military and medical applications.
(
IntelligentDisc presentation
)

OSTA Dec. Quarterly Meetings

The next OSTA meetings will take place at the Embassy
Suites in South San Francisco, on Monday, Tuesday &
Wednesday, December 3-5th, 2007.

(Detailed
schedule.)


MPV Mission and Dec. Meeting

The focus of the meeting will the 1) the EverPlay License
Program and 2) completion of the MPV Print Profile.
For further information on the recently updated
MPV
Committee Mission
, continue to the detailed schedule.


Join Others Interested in Archival Storage
at COSAs December Meeting

The Commercial Optical Storage Applications committee
will resume its quarterly meeting schedule on Dec. 4 at
1:30 p.m. at the Embassy Suites Hotel in South San
Francisco. Graham Irving, from K-PAR Archiving
Software, will serve as the new interim chairman.
COSAs charter is to promote storage solutions that
incorporate optical storage technology to meet the
growing need for regulatory compliance with regards to
long-term data retention and/or in a non-alterable format;
provide education and information about compliance
storage technologies to the industry, resellers and end
user customers; explain how these technologies
operate; define the integration process that enables its
use, and provide growth and development in markets for
automated storage technology. If youre interested in
this important market segment, please join us on Dec. 4.


On the Horizon

Archivemyphotos.org goes live
to help end users protect photos
David Bunzel, OSTA President

Were happy to report that a new
website resulting from the Photo
Archiving Roundtables outreach
efforts is up and running.
<
Archivemyphoto.org
> provides FAQs
on the risks of losing digital photos that
havent been protected, and provides
convenient, best practices for archiving
photos and creating family albums using optical discs.
A related viral marketing campaign, Saving the Family
Album is in the initial rollout phase in New York
grammar schools. Students creating digital albums will
help spread the message about archiving photos to their
families.

Today, OSTA has multiple activities underway to
address the critical issues of data archiving. In addition
to the work of the Photo Archiving Roundtable, the
ODAT Committee has made significant progress in its
efforts to define an industry-wide test methodology for
archival grade optical media, and the COSA Committee
provides information on archiving with optical storage in
various industry segments such as medical, government,
and legal that must meet compliance requirements.

In closing, Id like to bring a very positive case study on
optical storage to your attention. Byte and Switch
recently published an article,
In Praise of Optical
Storage,
saying it may pay for users to look beyond
[disk and tape] technologies to optical disc. Such was
the case for the South Central Veterans' Administration
Healthcare System in the aftermath of the hurricane
Katrina devastation in New Orleans in late August 2005.

David Bunzel, President
(408) 253-3695
(408) 253-9938 FAX
dbunzel@osta.org


Optical Storage Technology Association
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Newsletter Editor
Jan Johnson
Multipath Communications
jan@multipathcom.com Market Perspectives of the Data
Storage Industry

This session, moderated by Parker Lee, included
representatives from IBM Storage, NPD Group,
SanDisk and NetApp. A brief summary of key
discussion points follows; more detail is available
on the OSTA website at