Qualstar Designing and Manufacturing Enterprise Optical Disc Library for Sony

Qualstar Corporation was selected by Sony Imaging Products & Solutions, Inc. to design and manufacture a highly scalable enterprise optical disc library.

“With over 34 years of expertise, Qualstar was best suited to provide the needed knowledge and expertise in designing the enterprise optical disc based storage device,” said Steven N. Bronson, CEO, Qualstar. “High capacity storage device demand is rapidly accelerating and the optical disc archive system will offer one of the optimum choices.“

The optical disc archive is a high capacity, reliable media storage platform that acts as an on-site backup as well as an asset management solution. Used by the broadcasters, sports organizations and production companies, this solution is also gaining traction in other industries such as educational institutions, data centers, financial organizations and compliance industry because of its reliability, scalability and eco-friendly features. The second generation of optical disc archive system adopts optical media jointly developed by Sony and Panasonic. Rated with a 100-year shelf life, the second generation optical disc archive media doubles the capacity of a single cartridge to 3.3TB.

Sony ODC-3300R 3.3TB write-once cartridge

“The data explosion caused by rich media content, IoT, big data analysis and other video centric industries has created the need for high capacity, reliable and WORM compliant storage,” said Arun Vaishampayan, VP global sales, Qualstar. “Optical Disc Archive based storage platform fulfills the needed requirements of these markets.“

The optical disc archive system leverages the technologies and reliability of optical discs originally developed for commercial broadcast equipment. It also succeeds in keeping down total archiving costs and has a low environmental footprint.

“We are delighted to partner with Qualstar in designing the next generation storage solution,” said Mikio Kita Senior GM, Sony Imaging Products & Solutions. “We believe the jointly developed product will definitely benefit our valued customers and open new markets for optical devices.“