2006 was supposed to be the coming out party for holographic storage. Multiple product launches were eagerly anticipated. There was a fair amount of media buzz, complete with analyst estimates of 45M unit shipments and a $125M market by 2010. The reality today is bleak. Aprilis is gone. Optware has gone into hibernation. Only InPhase is still ...

There has been much discourse about when solid state drives will replace the traditional hard disk drive. While PCs with solid state drives are already on the market (but not moving many units) and hybrid drives have some traction, most solid state storage today is found either in consumer electronics or high performance computing ...