Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Turner Entertainment turns to holographic storage - Computerworld

The network plans to roll out the cutting-edge storage medium for fast restore-
News Story by Lucas Mearian
NOVEMBER 17, 2005 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Turner Entertainment Networks has its lenses focused on holographic storage for the future of storing and retrieving its movies, cartoons and commercial spots. The network giant has completed a test of the cutting-edge storage technology, which it said will soon move the company away from tape- and disk-based storage.

"The holographic disk promises to retail for $100, and by 2010, it will have capacity of 1.6TB each. That's pretty inexpensive," said Ron Tarasoff, vice president of broadcast technology and engineering at Turner Entertainment. "Even this first version can store 300GB per disk, and it has 160MB/sec. data throughput rates. That's burning. Then combine it with random access, and it's the best of all worlds."
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