SAN JOSE, Calif. — When you think of Blu-ray, you think of movies on a disc. You don’t think of a data center. But Facebook executives saw beyond that minor detail. Facebook has worked with a vendor ...

A major development in the production of optical discs has happened this week. Scientists at the University of Shanghai have unveiled a new form of optical disc that can hold up to 200,000 gigabytes ...

We could soon store 700 Terabytes on a 12-centimeter optical disk which would be equal to storing 28,000 Blu-ray disks. A separate advance with in data encoding could triple storage to 2.1 Petabytes ...

A couple of years ago, Facebook revealed it was using Blu-ray disks as a cost-efficient way to archive the billions of images that users uploaded to its service. Now, Panasonic has said it plans to ...

The whole Blu-ray format's been a mess from the very beginning. We can't, therefore, quite suppress a derisory smirk at the announcement of two new Blu-ray disc specifications, neither of which will ...

Now the PC market is on the cusp of another leap in optical disc technology: Blu-ray and HD-DVD. Blu-ray discs store 25 GB per layer, and the standard supports dual-sided discs. HD-DVD, by contrast, ...

PowerFile Inc. on Monday announced that it has added Blu-ray disk technology to the latest version of its Active Archive Appliance, part of its effort to move beyond the limits of DVD in scaling the ...

Facebook has a whole heap of data to store, but much of it sits so deep within our profiles that it rarely need to be served. So the social network has been trying to develop cold storage systems to ...

The storage capacity of Blu-ray discs is doubling, with companies including Sharp, TDK and Verbatim preparing to launch new discs that can store up to 100GB of data. Sharp will start selling the first ...