TOKYO -- Sony is using its recent acquisition of U.S. startup Optical Archive to enter the field of corporate data storage and breathe new life into its optical disc business.

Sony Corp. will launch a new optical disk format in November that allows for storage of up to 23.3GB per disk, the company said today. The format, called Professional Disc for Data, is being ...

Sony’s push to get enterprise users to store data on optical discs ... will develop new optical disc library systems for corporate clients’ “cold storage,” which hold data that aren ...

Covering Digital Storage Technology & Market. IEEE President in 2024 Last year Sony ... the data is not intentionally changed with time. This technology is thus best suited for a cold storage ...

Optical discs like Blu-ray are losing favor, but Sony and Panasonic don’t seem to care. The companies have cranked up the storage capacity on optical media to a stunning 3.3TB. That’s a big ...

came up with a new optical storage format for professionals, the Archival Disc, which could store a whopping 300GB of data. The writing has been on the wall for Sony’s older optical solutions ...

Sony describes the Archival Disc as a "new standard for professional-use, next-generation optical discs, with the objective of expanding the market for long-term digital data storage." The ...

A recent report indicated that Sony plans to cut up to 250 jobs at its optical media plant, offering workers early retirement in preparation for phasing out its recordable disc production.

Sony Group sets down to mass-produce laser diodes that quadruple hard disk drive (HDD) capacity, developing substantial data storage sector advancements. Sony Semiconductor Solutions will start ...

Sony’s plant in Tagaze, Japan was the home of its optical disc manufacturing ... capacity cold digital storage, it’s hard to go past optical media. Tapes can compete on cost and data density ...

BD-R lost its appeal for data storage. Sony BDZ-FTB4200 Blu-ray Disc Recorder for Japan Market Due to restrictions imposed by movie studios and other content providers for the North American market, ...

Sony is ending production of recordable Blu-ray, MiniDisc and MD Data disc media, along with MiniDV ... cheap memory, and cloud storage. All of the formats Sony killed have been around for decades ...