Storage Technology Initiatives - NSIC (National Storage Industry Consortium)

Abstract

A consortium of American companies and univergoals of these projects include attaining a recordsities called The National Storage Industry Coning density of 10 gigabits per square inch on magnetic sortium (NSIC) has been formed for the purpose of disk and 1 terabyte per cubic inch on magnetic tape; soliciting US Government funding to support “pregoals for optical storage are similar to these. A brief proprietary” technology initiatives focused on accelreview will be given of the NSIC organization, its erating technical advances in data storage technology. technical program structure, and the status of the A set of 5-year projects was funded last year. The ARPA-funded technical activities.