With ODA, I know that everything that is important to the university is secure and easily discoverable.Īnother benefit of ODA is its scalability. Previously, we were digging through hard drives or losing track of tapes and information due to personnel changes. This allows me to easily tell the system to grab a specific cartridge and export its contents from that folder back to our hard drive system, so that I can locate it and do what I want with the file. With ODA and Storage DNA, I can simply search the metadata tags for the content I’m looking for and it will locate what cartridge it’s on. I don’t have to worry about a hard drive sitting on the shelf for years and then plugging it in and hoping it works.Īdditionally, hard drives are often not labeled and in order to understand what is on the drive you have to plug it in and check. Using Sony’s solution is easier, faster and gives us peace of mind. Prior to adopting ODA, we were primarily using external hard drives. That translates to long-term savings for us. I don’t have to worry about making sure that I am transferring my old media onto new media to stay current, and the readers and writers are also compatible. If we opt to buy a next-generation system, I can take my Generation Two cartridges and the system will read off of them. This translates to less wear and tear and a longer shelf life.Īnother reason why we chose the ODA system is because of its backwards compatibility. Other archival options use a physical tape that touches drums and rollers and heads. We chose Sony’s ODA for our long-term archival storage because it is a touchless media, meaning the only thing that touches the disc during the Write/Read process is a laser light. We use Sony’s ODS元0M PetaSite, a scalable 30-slot master library unit to archive, safeguard and easily recall the university’s most visible live events, including graduation ceremonies, presidential addresses, theater performances and concerts. We shouldn’t under-estimate the magnitude of Folio Photonics’ technology milestone but we should recognize that the next phase of development will be hard and take a year or more.One way we stay ahead of the curve and preserve our most important media is through our adoption of Sony’s Optical Disc Archive (ODA), which is critical to our long-term archival storage. Envisaging a random-access archive medium that is lower-cost than tape, about as dense in capacity and capacity-scaling terms, and longer-lasting, is hugely significant. This is, potentially, a huge development milestone for archiving technology. The two disrupted markets will be archive tape and archive optical disk and existing suppliers in these markets will represent potential partnering opportunities for Folio Photonics. We think that drive development is a bigger hurdle to get over than device chassis development. We can take it as given that existing archive software interfaces will be used why re-invent that particular wheel? If they are convinced of the potential then a 3-layer ecosystem will form, with Folio Photonics making the platters and, maybe, the cartridges, a drive-builder developing and making the drives, and a library maker developing auto-loading and robot-driven libraries. These partners will look at market projections for archive data growth and the prospects of eating into the tape archive market (with lower cost and faster access media) and the existing optical disk archive market (with lower-cost media). Our thinking is that Folio Photonics will look to partners to build drives and tape library chassis, ranging from auto-loaders to larger libraries. We believe that it will disrupt and re-energize the multi-billion-dollar data storage industry with its breakthrough financial and sustainability upside.” Comment Santamaria said: “Folio’s next-generation storage media will radically reduce the upfront cost and TCO while making data archives active, cybersecure, and sustainable – an ideal combination for data center and hyperscale customers. They in turn use tape drives made by IBM.įolio says its extrusion-based manufacturing advantages drive room for significant channel/partner margin and profitability and position the company for sustainable growth and continued investment in the business. They might either be a media+drive+device manufacturer, like Sony with its optical archive, or a media manufacturer, like Fujifilm which supplies LTO tape cartridges to customers of tape libraries made by suppliers such as Quantum and SpectraLogic. This could be achieved by Folio Photonics developing its own drives, modeled on Blu-ray drives perhaps, or engaging with partners who could do this. Folio Photonics has proved that its technology works, albeit in lab conditions, and now needs to show that drives and libraries can be produced.
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