Archival Optical Disc System Government Information Preservation Working Group Presentation

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Archival Optical Disc SystemGovernment
Information Preservation Working Group
Presentation

• October 14, 2003

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Agenda

• Introduction
• Discussion on industry concerns with optical
  media performance
• Discussion on the issues causing concerns
• Proposal for a concept to address concerns
• Request for support from Working Group members to
  validate concept

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Imation Corp (NYSE IMN)

• Y2003 Revenue 1.163 B
• 54 international
• Operations in 60 countries
• 2,800 employees, 300 in RD
• Headquarters Oakdale, MN

• Data Storage Info. Mgmt.
• Removable Media
• Enterprise
• Midrange
• Personal
• Data Center Services
• Government Services

World Headquarters, Oakdale, Minnesota, USA
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Imation is the Only U.S.-Based Manufacturer of
Removable Media

• State-of-the-art manufacturing facilities
• All plants certified to new ISO 90012000
  standards

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Imations Advanced Global Technical Centers
Support Customer Needs Worldwide

• Oakdale, Minnesota
• Neuss, Germany
• London, Ontario, Canada
• Weatherford, Oklahoma
• Tokyo, Japan
• Beijing, China

Canada
Neuss
Tokyo

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Weatherford
Oakdale
Beijing
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Imation/3M Optical Product History
1980
1984
1988
1992
1996
2000
2004
2008
5.25 Rewritable
Blu-ray HD DVD
1 GB
650 MB
1.3 GB
12 Write-Once
Magneto-Optical Near Field
Photopolymer Holography
Magnetic Patterned Media
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Royal Philips Electronics

• One of the largest global electronics company
  with 2003 sales of EUR 29 bln (H1 2004 EUR 13,911
  mln)
• Multinational workforce of 165,600 employees
• Active in the areas of medical systems, domestic
  appliances and personal care, consumer
  electronics, lighting, semiconductors and optical
  storage
• Present in over 150 countries
• RD expenditures
• H1 2004 EUR 1,268 mln
• 2003 EUR 2,600 mln

• Headquarters
• Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Core Competence in Optical Storage
ICs / Embedded software
CD/DVD Modules
Automotive Modules
Data products
Consumer Electronics Products
Optical Discs
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Leading in Technology

• DVDR/RW Philips first to market
• DVDR/RW drives 16x
• DVDR 16x Media
• DVDR DL 8.5 GB Media

• Blu-ray disc
• Triple Writer, OPU 81

• Solid State Changer for Automotive

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Philips Optical Storage
Main Production and Development Centers
Eindhoven
Wetzlar
Gyor
CMC Taipei
Shanghai
PBDS Taipei
Singapore
Development centers
Production centers
Production partners
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Industry Concerns
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Issues to be addressed

• There are many industry concerns regarding
  reliability and performance of optical media
• Compatibility - Media / Drive
• Ease of use
• Quality of recordings how to verify
• Lifetime of media how long will it last
• Data obsolescence will old media read on new
  drives
• Concerns expressed by NIST and end-users
• Business and professional users
• Home consumers

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Are concerns real or perceived?

• Current technology is designed for robust
  performance
• Technology implementation has large variability
• Need to be able to verify that the technology is
  performing safely within specifications
• Unrecoverable data cannot be the first indicator
  of a problem
• Need to verify performance of both media and drive

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Why is there variability?

• Optical is truly a consumer product
• open format with many media and drive
  manufacturers
• vast majority of manufacturers are media only or
  drive only producers
• typical media factory has 10s to 100s of lines
• multiple compatible formats
• rapid technology migration
• extremely cost competitive

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What influences long-term reliability?

• Media
• Materials
• Dyes, seal-coats, plastics, metals (reflectors)
• Robust manufacturing process
• Mastering through printing / labeling
• Environmental control
• Manufacturing control
• Repeatable process
• Materials / supplier management
• Trained and experienced labor force

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But its more than just media

• Drive and System Management
• Recording process
• Recording speed
• Data verification
• Care and Handling
• Environmental containment (Heat, Light, Moisture,
  Debris)
• Scratch-resistance
• Long lived
• System migration - utilize latest technology
• Data migration - avoid costly data conversion
• Data protection true write-once media, security

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Concept Proposal Archival Optical Disc System

• System based on CD, DVD and Blu-ray standard
• Not a new disc format
• Read-out compatible with installed base of
  optical drives
• When disc is recorded in drive,
• Quality of recording (data) is verified at time
  of recording
• System will have ability to monitor health of
  disc each time disc is read to ensure long-term
  reliability
• Vital information describing recording
  characteristics is written to disc for on-going
  audit purposes
• Timestamp information
• Version control
• Drive identifier
• Disc and drive are enhanced and manufactured for
  true archival applications
• Features included beyond required standards and
  specifications

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What were proposing different

• Develop system and media manufacturing process
  that removes the variability of drives and media
• Leverage combined experiences in design,
  materials, and manufacturing process selection
• Optimized to meet long-term reliability
  requirements
• Media life certified for gt50 years
• Robust storage and handling
• Additional features to provide user with
  verification

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Considerations / recommendations

• Start with DVD family products
• Create lifetime proof for DVD media
• Optimize drives towards lifetime proof media
• Develop and introduce archive grade discs for
  Professional archiving and potentially consumer
• Define robust writing SW application

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Request to GIPWoG

• Is there need for archive grade media?
• Or does off-the-shelf product meet requirements?
• Is DVD the right starting point?
• What levels of verification or certification
  would you anticipate?
• Would you be willing to support us in the
  measurement and testing?
• Opportunity / interest to participate in beta
  testing?

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Request to GIPWoG

• Is there a broader role for the GIPWoG to support
  the acceptance of this system?
• Within the U.S. Government
• In the business and professional markets

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Key Contact Information

• Imation
• Rusty Rosenberger
• wrrosenberger_at_imation.com, 1-651-704-7504
• James Kwiecien
• jzkwiecien_at_imation.com, 1-651-704-4645
• Philips
• Frank Simonis
• frank.simonis_at_philips.com, 31-40-27-35530-34309

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Thank you.