07-09-2014, 10:26 PM
The growing demands of high definition digital video content, fixed content data, andcompliance and security application will soon outstrip the capabilities of current storagetechnologies to keep up the demand. Clearly a new storage paradigm is needed to meet thegrowing storage demands. So what is it going to be? With its omnipresent computer, all connected via the internet, the information age has led toan explosion of information available to users. The decreasing cost of storing data and theincreasing storage capability of the same small device footprint have been key enablers ofthis revolution. While current storage needs are being met, storage technology must continueto improve in order to keep pace with the rapidly increasing demand. So how is it going tobe? Both magnetic and conventional optical data storage technologies, where individual bits arestored as distinct magnetic or optical changes on the surface of a recording medium areapproaching physical limits beyond which individual bits may be too small or too difficult tostore. So what next step is going to be? Storing information throughout the volume of a medium, not just on its surface is anintriguing solution to our entire problem regarding storage. So this is it, Holographic DataStorage. Holographic Data Storage is a volumetric approach which, although conceiveddecades ago, has made recent progress towards practicality with the appearance of lower-cost Enabling technologies, significant results from longstanding research efforts and progress inholographic recording materials. This is a quest to find the answer to these entire questions, the technology and the storybehind the next revolution in data storage.