UDO Leads the Optical Archival Storage Market
A few years ago, optical storage appeared like the future. While disc drive held 200MB, magneto-optical disks stored 650 MB and that could be WORM (Write Once Read Many), making optical nickelodeons the only data-storage medium that could fill the not deletable, not modifiable demands of the rules Wall Street broker dealers and other associated deep-pocket clients had to abide with. Today it looks like optical disks might connect head-per-track disks on the scrapheap of storage.
Fast forward 20 years, and hard drive and tape magazine capacities have arrived at 1 TB and more. The regulatory agencies have authorised, at least tacitly, software-based WORM technology in archiving solutions likeEMC Centera and Nexsan’s Assurion and in the firmware of tape drives, including the market leading LTO. Now Plasmon - the manufacturer of UDO- is in governance and rumors are fast-flying around the Net about its, and UDO’s, future.