Spun off from research in the Center for Layered Polymer Systems at Case Western Reserve University, Folio Photonic has an exclusive license to commercialize products for a large and evolving archival optical data storage market. The firm is working on development of an optical data storage disc with terabyte scale capacity. With initial focus on increasing storage and access to archival data, a vital need for cloud storage, data storage market has relied primarily on hard drives and magnetic tapes. Data archiving is the process of moving information no longer frequently used into storage - usually indexed enabling search capabilities for easy location and retrieval. The Folio Photonics technology depends on effective use of polymer co-extrusion, a manufacturing method that allows data storage in layers. The process uses thin, flexible polymer film that can be cut and laminated to discs, so that 64 extremely thin layers that can be read on hardware designed for that purpose.
