Holographic storage is one of those snake-oil technologies that's almost as vaporous as Duke Nukem Forever or Half-Life 2: Episode 3. It has been been something of a digital philosopher's stone since ...

Microsoft is looking beyond flash storage and hard drives to handle the seemingly unstoppable demand for cloud storage. Yesterday at its Ignite conference, the company announced Project HSD (via ZDNet ...

During that time, hardware advances carried out independent of holography have made holographic storage more achievable. These include such improvements as CMOS sensor technology, development of ...

Every now and then, it’s nice to sit back, drink in hand, and contemplate the future. When done in the wrong environment of course, this often leads to job loss or worse, but under the right ...

Holography is an imaging technique in which an object is imaged such that it appears three-dimensional (3D) when viewed later. This is the fundamental technique for producing holograms that are ...

Microsoft Research has announced Project HSD, detailing its work on a new holographic storage device (HSD) built for cloud-scale data that has a potential to be a successor to today's NAND flash and ...

In addition to living in a digital age, our lives have also started to revolve around clouds, that is, cloud storage and services. This elusive and ephemeral concept, however, still needs to be ...

The technology, developed by GE Global Research, the technology development arm of the General Electric Co., differs from current optical storage such as Blu-ray and DVD, which store data only on the ...

Optware will have specifications for its holographic storage technology approved by an international standards body in 2006, making it the first company to attempt to create an industry standard for ...

Information storage media company Maxell has said it will launch its first holographic storage products in September 2006. The first removable drive will have a capacity of 300GB and a throughput of ...

InPhase Technologies is one step closer to bringing holographic storage drives to market. On Wednesday, the company plans to demonstrate the first fully functioning prototype of its Tapestry ...

Turner Entertainment Networks has its lenses focused on holographic storage for storing and retrieving its growing library of movies, cartoons and commercial spots because of its speed and portability ...