PDO Europe GmbH Supplies UDO Media
In Europe
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on August 3, 2009 at 4:55 pmAfter Plasmon Ltd. stopped its production of UDO media, Prime Digital Optical Europe GmbH can now allay the users of the high-grade storage media. All product types from the assortment of UDO1 and UDO2 media will be offered by PDO in the future.
All Plasmon activities including hardware and systems were acquired by Alliance Storage Technologies (ASTI) in January 2009. ASTI will continue to maintain and develop the Plasmon brand and UDO-based optical storage and technology solutions.
PDO is the only provider of the complete UDO range and can guarantee the long-term availability. By stocking of disks at PDO, a separate customer stock-keeping is not required. Within 2 to 3 working days after ordering the company can also deliver larger numbers of disks. Furthermore, PDO offers drives, cleaning kits and archival boxes for UDO media.
UDO disks are considered to be particularly safe storage media for the long-term archival storage. Compared with RAID systems the UDO technology requires less energy and is significantly more maintenance-friendly. Due to the long lifetime and authenticity of the data, the UDO technology is in particular suitable for applications, which have to comply with the legal regulations for electronic documents.
The storage specialists of PDO Europe do not only deliver media and drives, but also act as a full service provider for all optical storage solutions. The portfolio also includes the cleaning of media as well as analysis, data recovery and the certified deletion and destruction of disks of all kinds.
Comments
The PDO team has many years of experience in magneto-optical technologies. The activity started in 1989 in the Wiesbaden, Germany- based MO business unit of Hoechst AG. In 1994,
the unit changed to PDO Media (a Philips-Hoechst joint venture) and in 1999 to PrimeDisc
(a Ritek-Philips joint venture). PDO Europe GmbH was formed in Oct 2005 by members of the
original M-O staff. It includes Ekkart Wegeleben, a veteran of the optical industry.
Since the bankruptcy of Plasmon, Verbatim is the only manufacturer of UDO media.
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Based on a license agreement with Alliance Storage Technologies (Plasmon)