hVault, a provider of holographic digital data storage
solutions, today announced the launch of their company
at NAB 2012.
hVault?s focus is a holographic disk storage system for
archival applications, including both single drive
autoloaders and multi-drive libraries. The company
claims that the systems will offer lower cost of
ownership than either hard disk or data tape storage.
Archival life of the hVault tamper-proof disks exceeds
50 years.
"The vastly expanding storage needs of the professional
video industry have dictated migrating to a secure,
long-life format, and holographic storage is the
benchmark for archival video storage," said Bland
McCartha, vice president of sales for hVault. "The
characteristics of our library systems will enable
companies who have already digitized their content, as
well as the vast collections of analog video that still
require digitization, to safely store their content and
provide rapid access for monetization of that archival
content. There is no other technology that comes close
to the benefits of holographic storage for active
archive applications."
Holographic storage is more cost effective than magnetic
storage, either disk-based or tape-based. Holographic
media has an archival lifetime in excess of 50 years,
which eliminates the 2-5 year cycle of replacing
magnetic media. Holographic storage systems consume
about 1/100th the power of equivalent disk storage and
can operate without any special power conditioning or
cooling. Holographic media is also impervious to
magnetic fields, static electricity, extremes of
temperature and humidity, atmospheric dust or water
damage.