HIGHLIGHTS:
2000: Inphase Technologies incorporated (to be the leader in Holographic storage tech)
2002: $2,000,000 grant to Inphase from ATP
2002: Aprilis releases holographic storage media
2004: $8.7 million grant to Inphase
2005: Inphase promises Tapestry drive to be released this year
2005: $32.1 million funding (third round) to Inphase
2005: Maxell to launch holographic storage media in 2006
2008: Tapestry drive from Inpahse still waited after 3 years of the announcement
2010: Inphase seized for non-payment of taxes
2010: Still no holographic storage drive in sight (only promises)
WEB SUMMARY:
2000 – InPhase Technologies, a Colorado-based company, spun out of Bell Research Labs (birthplace of the transistor, among other things). During the 1990′s, Bell Labs scientists and engineers worked hard to develop the fist holographic storage technology.
Source: The Dawn of Holographic Media
Jan 31, 2001 – InPhase Technologies Inc., housed in a 25000-square-foot Longmont facility, will create products using a holographic data storage … Holographic storage technology allows engineers to store vast amounts of data, he said. Other storage methods only record data on the surface of a disk. …
Source: Rocky Mountain News : LUCENT SPINOFF PLANS TO EMPLOY UP TO … -
Jul 12, 2001 – But although the space-saving advantages of holography have been known for four decades, manufacturers have not been able to produce an affordable holographic data storage system. ”We have had no commercial product, mainly for the lack of a good storage medium,” said Prof. …
Source: WHAT’S NEXT; Through the Looking Glass, to Holographic Data Storage
Oct 2002 – The two-year project, to be administered by NIST, commenced in October, 2002 and consists of a $2,000,000 grant to InPhase from the ATP for the development and demonstration of rewritable recording materials for holographic data storage systems that offer ultrahigh …
Source: ADIC to Supply Tape Libraries to Sun – storage news archive – 2002, …
Nov 2002 – Aprilis’s proprietary high-performance, Write Once Read Many (WORM), holographic storage media, which was released in November 2002, is the first commercially viable holographic storage media for the removable storage market. The media technology provides …
Source: Aprilis Acquires Holographic Storage Patents from Holoplex …
Dec 31, 2002 – We had revenues of $156,000 for the year ended December 31, 2002 principally from the sale of certain holographic data storage, intellectual property and related research equipment. We received an initial payment of $150000 upon execution of the license agreement.
Source: MANHATTAN SCIENTIFICS INC – 10KSB – 20040220 – BUSINESS
Mar 1, 2004 – InPhase Technologies, the leader in holographic data storage development, today announced that it has closed on the final $8.7 million to … New Venture Partners LLC is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm with a proven history of creating communications and information …
Source: Inphase Technologies Closes $15 Million Second Round of Funding.
Jul 2004 – Optware demonstrated recording and playback of digital movies on a holographic recording disc with a reflective layer using its patented Collinear Technologies. Holographic storage delivers high capacity by recording data throughout the volume of …
Source: Storage solutions push IT forward
Jan 5, 2005 – InPhase Technologies is one step closer to bringing holographic storage drives to market. On Wednesday, the company plans to demonstrate the first fully functioning prototype of its Tapestry holographic drive, which the company expects to begin shipping next …
Source: InPhase plans holographic storage device for 2006 | Storage - InfoWorld
Jan 5, 2005 – Optware Corp. will have specifications for its holographic storage technology approved by an international standards body in 2006, making it the first company to attempt to create an industry standard for holographic storage, the company’s …
Source: Optware attempts to standardize holographic storage - Computerworld
Feb 7, 2005 – Six companies have collaborated to accelerate the development of “revolutionary” Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD) technology that offers 200 times the capacity of a single layer DVD. The firms behind the HVD Alliance include CMC Magnetics, Fuji Photo film, Nippon Paint, Optware, …
Source: Japanese giants back holographic storage - V3.co.uk – formerly vnunet. …
May 25, 2005 – InPhase Technologies, the leader in holographic data storage drive and media development, today announced that it has closed a $32.1 million third round of funding. Bayer MaterialScience AG, a market and technology leader in developing …
Source: Storage VCs (Venture Capital) funds in Storage list on STORAGEsearch
Nov 29, 2005 – Information storage media company Maxell has said it will launch its first holographic storage products in September 2006. … “Imagine having a person’s entire medical history, complete with MRI images, or storing a broadcast network’s entire HD [high-definition] Library on a single …
Source: Maxell to launch holographic storage next year – Computer Storage
Mar 27, 2006 – InPhase Technologies, the world’s leader in holographic data storage, announced today that it has demonstrated the highest data density of any commercial technology by recording 515 gigabits of data per square inch.
Source: Half-Terabit Per Square Inch Data Density From InPhase Technologies …
Jun 5, 2008 – InPhase Technologies has been promising the imminent arrival of its 300GB Tapestry drives for three years. But the constant setbacks and delays have now forced the Longmont, Colorado-based firm to cut a …
Source: Holographic storage kingpin turns staff and product into an illusion • …
Jan 13, 2009 – With Plasmon and its UDO technology now effectively dead, the InPhase disks will have a data capacity lead over DVD and Blu-ray (25 or 50GB) disks. InPhase and Ikegami are set to demonstrate video workflow using Tapestry holographic storage at the US National Association of …
Source: InPhase might ship holographic storage this year? • The Register
Apr 2009 – GE researchers successfully demonstrated a huge step forward in mass storage technology with micro-holographic storage material that can support 500 gigabytes of storage capacity in a standard DVD-size disc. This is equal to the capacity of 20 …
Source: GE’s holographic disc lands “Coolest Tech” award | GE Reports
Feb 8, 2010 – InPhase Technologies, which was set to release the first commercially available holographic data storage device, Tapestry, was seized by the Colorado Department of Revenue on February 8, 2010 for non-payment of taxes. InPhase was granted a joint patent with …
Source: Holographic Storage Technology | eHow.com
Jun 7, 2010 – Holographic storage sure has a lot of potential, but so far all those promises have resulted in nothing more than broken dreams. Now we have some new promises, …
From Blog News Archive No.319 (June, 2010) @ OTOMM.com