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Optera Whitepaper (2024)

Digital data demand is growing with information from more connected sensors and cameras and with the growth of AI driven applications. Much data is created for immediate use and isn’t saved, but with the rise in demand to train AI models and other big data applications, data storage growth is increasing. There are also projections that the traditional growth rates of conventional storage technologies don’t match the potential growth rates of data that could be stored for later use.

Modern optical recording technologies are particularly interesting for archive applications because the various optical storage media can last 100 years or more in a much less controlled environment that magnetic storage technologies. In this white paper we will look at advanced optical storage from a startup called Optera Data and compare it to HDD, magnetic tape, synthetic DNA storage and other new optical storage technologies.

High-Capacity Hard Disk Drives Lower Data Center Total Cost of Ownership (TCO 2022)

The world’s demand for data is exploding to meet the needs of an AI, immersive video and internet of things driven future. According to IDC, the cumulative annual growth rate for data generation is 23%1 and although only a small percentage of this data is retained long term, this is driving the demand for digital storage including HDDs.

2020 Survey Summary for Storage in Professional Media and Entertainment

In February through June of 2020 Coughlin Associates, Inc. conducted a survey of professional media and entertainment professionals on various digital storage topics. Here’s a summary of the results.

Beyond the Data Event Horizon

An exploration of touch rate and response time.

Chinese Flash Forum Presentation

The Future of Solid State Storage.

2021 Survey Summary for Storage in Professional Media and Entertainment

In February through June of 2021 Coughlin Associates, Inc. conducted a survey of professional media and entertainment professionals on various digital storage topics. Here’s a summary of the results.

2019 Survey Summary for Storage in Professional Media and Entertainment

In February through June of 2019, Coughlin Associates, Inc. conducted a survey of professional media and entertainment professionals on various digital storage topics. Here’s a summary of the results.

Data Storage and Personal Entertainment

Digital storage technology is developing providing more storage at a lower price and higher performance while personal entertainment devices need more storage capacity and higher resolution content requirements.

ChangXin Memory Technologies: China’s Rising DRAM Manufacturer

The semiconductor industry is a global industry. Design of semiconductor chips is done throughout the world. The actual manufacturing of semiconductor devices (chips) is dominated today by companies in the Asia-Pacific. These include companies in China, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. Let’s take a look at a DRAM manufacturer in China, ChangXin Memory Technologies, and talk about their role in the semiconductor industry.

9 Years of Media & Entertainment Digital Storage Surveys (2018)

From 2009 through 2018 Coughlin Associates conducted 9 surveys of media and entertainment professionals about their use of digital storage and memory in media and entertainment workflows. This presentation from the 2018 SMPTE Technical Conference gives a summary of some of the results these 9 surveys.

Successful MRAM Production Requires Good Magnetic Test Equipment

Important keys for successful manufacturing of non-volatile memory products are good design, including testing and verification of device properties and once in manufacturing, quality control testing at the wafer and device level. We will look at the manufacturing and testing of emerging non-volatile memory technologies that will enable IoT, AI and advanced network development and commercialization.

Touching the Heart of Storage

A new metric comparing touch rate and response time can be used to characterize storage devices and in system design.

A Moore’s Law for Mobile Power?

With more energy in mobile devices, we can do more with them during the course of the day.

Archiving and Flash Memory

Flash memory is finding a role for caching content to be written or read from archive media. Could flash memory fill a useful tier for an active archive?