Robert Sharl, BCU; Cathy Soreny,
Optical Jukebox and Simon Pargeter, Bas8 Ltd.
It is no longer a tool to manage storage efficiency in an
optical jukebox, but an automated tool designed to deliver specific content to end users when it is in its active phase.
HSM moves data from an active server volume to a storage device, such as an
optical jukebox, but maintains a link to the data's location on the storage media so that it can be easily retrieved by users.
A Hewlett Packard 40ST
Optical Jukebox with 42 gigabytes of optical storage costs about $25,000.
An
optical jukebox and the NFS filesharing protocol provide all who need it with quick and easy access to seismic data, as well as models and images, no matter where they were developed.
Dicom has introduced a new Kofax
optical jukebox manager product that allows Windows NT drive emulation and management of up to 32Tb of data as if it was just a standard NT drive letter.
The first phase of the project called for each page of every treaty to be sorted, scanned, indexed, and stored into an electronic vault (an
optical jukebox).
The
optical jukebox can store large amounts of text, scanned document images and clinical images.
These bleeding edge innovators with boat-anchor scanners and room-filling
optical jukeboxes worked feverishly for years to move hundreds of paper charts off their filing shelves.