CMC Magnetics Acquires Verbatim Storage Media Business from Mitsubishi

Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation announced it is selling its storage media business operated by Verbatim, as well as related assets, to CMC Magnetics.

CyberLink Launches Power2Go 13

CyberLink announced it has released version 13 of its Power2Go optical disc recording, backup and conversion software, which is available in Platinum ($69.95) and Essential (free) editions.

Security Engineered Machinery Rolls Out New Optical Disc Shredder

Security Engineered Machinery announced its new model 0200 OMD/SSD-C optical media shredder for NSA listed destruction of classified CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs.

Pioneer Unveils Two Commercial-Grade Blu-ray Disc Recorders

Pioneer Japan announced its new BDR-PR1MC-W and BDR-PR1MA-W commercial-grade Blu-ray Disc recorders, which are intended for long term data storage applications.

QNAP to Integrate Panasonic freeze-ray Optical Disc Data Archive System

QNAP Systems announced its new BlueGlacier Tiering Archive Storage unit, which integrates QNAP’s enterprise NAS with Panasonic’s freeze-ray optical disc-based data archive system.