Dave Webb

Cloud” is a 2008 buzzword to rival the “V” word above. On the storage side, everyone from IBM to EMC to Microsoft has weighed...

Rumours of productization of the futuristic-sounding holographic storage have been in the wind for years as researchers fought to come up with a 3-D medium to pack more bits into the same optical storage space. Last year, InPhase Technologies, a Bell Labs venture spun out of Lucent Technologies in December 2000, introduced Tapestry 300r, a line of drives and media the company called the first commercial holographic storage products. Generation 1 of Tapestry will pack 30 GB of data onto a 1.5-mm thick, 130-mm diameter disk at read/write rates of 20 Mbps. The company says by Generation 3, within four years, the media will hold 1.6 TB and read and write at 120 Mbps.

DRAM and Flash-based drives are finding their way on to the market

Yes, it

If we could store all our enterprises

Shared password with individual login credentials makes for easy deployment, the company says