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How to Comply With the Archiving Regulations Without Paying an Arm and a Leg

Optical Archiving Libraries make it easy to protect your data.
by Bob Mesnik

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So you are being dragged kicking and screaming to archive your e-mails and data. What can you do that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg? Well, the new jukebox library systems with the latest 100 GB media are now an economical alternative to tape, and provide the best way to archive your data.

The library software makes the jukeboxes easy to use so you can archive your data quickly and automatically.  Blu-ray media is now the same price per megabyte as the tape media, and provides archive quality that’s not available with tape.

So you are being dragged kicking and screaming to archive your e-mails and data. What can you do that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg? Well, the new jukebox library systems with the latest 100 GB media are now an economical alternative to tape, and provide the best way to archive your data.

The library software makes the jukeboxes easy to use so you can archive your data quickly and automatically.  Blu-ray media is now the same price per megabyte as the tape media, and provides archive quality that’s not available with tape.

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How Blu-ray Optical Discs Work

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The technology for storing data continues to bring us ever-increasing capacity. First, there were CD-ROM discs, next the DVD-discs, which increased capacity and data transfer speed.  Now we have blu-ray discs that provide 100 GB of storage. They are used in optical jukeboxes or libraries for archiving computer data

Blu-ray Discs (BD) was introduced by Sony in October 2000. Even though this new technology was developed for the consumer market, it also was capable of handling computer data.  As a matter of fact, Blu-ray became the standard in both markets.

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