Pioneer BDR-2208 Takes Blu-ray Writing to 15x Speed

Pioneer Electronics (USA) announced its new BDR-2208 5.25″ internal half-height Blu-ray BDXL recorder, which writes select BD-R SL (25GB) discs at 15x speed.

OPARG Champions Optical Disc Archiving

Mitsubishi Kagaku Media (Verbatim), Pioneer Corporation and Victor Advanced Media (JVC) announced they have established the Optical Archive Group (OPARG) to promote the use of BD-R and DVD-R discs for archival data storage.

DIGISTOR Demos REWIND Blu-ray Archiving Software

DIGISTOR (a division of Sunland International) announced that it will preview its REWIND writable Blu-ray Disc (BD) archiving software at the 2012 NAB Show in Las Vegas, April 16-19 2012.

StorageQuest Launches Blu-ray Optical Network Appliance

StorageQuest announced its new Optical Network Appliance (ONA), which provides high throughput archiving over the network to an array of up to twenty warm-swappable Blu-ray BDXL writers.