Disc Archiving Systems Joins Optical Archive Group

DISC
Archiving Systems BV has joined the Optical Archive Group
(OPARG).

The group promotes the
benefits of optical archiving (BD/BDXL/DVD/CD technology) and encourages the adoption by proposing professional solutions for long-term storage
systems.

OPARG was formed in
2012 by Mitsubishi Kagaku Media Co. Ltd.
(Verbatim), Pioneer Corporation and Victor Advanced Media Co., Ltd (JVC) with
the objective to establish a professional association formed by optical archiving
specialists worldwide.

OPARG’s goal is to facilitate
international standards for long-term optical archiving, ensuring the quality,
scalability and reliability of archiving with optical technology as well as raising
compatibility by achieving advanced quality management for optical discs and
drives.

"The
OPARG Group is very pleased with the support of DISC Archiving Systems",
states Hideharu Takeshima, archive project leader of Mitsubishi Kagaku Media.
"DISC has a long history in
providing state-of-the-art optical library solutions and is a valuable addition
to our consortium where we all strive to provide the highest quality optical
archiving solutions."

"DISC
actively supports OPARG’s mission and is delighted to collaborate to raise the awareness
for optical archive solutions for long-term professional archive storage",
states Kees Machielsen, CEO of DISC. "In many situations we receive feedback from
our integration partners and customers that they have invested initially in hard disk and/or LTO based solutions which need technology refreshes and data
migrations every 3-5 years, resulting in expensive short-term solutions for
their valuable corporate data.

"Blu-ray
optical technology fulfills a number of customer requirements (longevity, compliance,
backward compatibility etc.) as part of its standard features and provides a sustainable
long-term solution whereby the customer can truly file and forget".