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Company Introduction

Ken Anderson, Terry Loseke

Akonia Holographics Founded in 2012, Longmont Colorado, USA

Brief History of Holographic Storage ² 1948 Dennis Gabor invented Holography ² 1963 – van Heerden postulated that holography

could be used to store data ² 1963 – 2014 (51 years!)

²  ‘88-’98 – IBM ²  ’91-’93 – Tamarack ²  ’94-’99 – Siros ²  ‘94-’00 – Bell Labs ²  ‘00-’10 – InPhase ²  ’06-Present – Hitachi ²  ’12-Present – Akonia ² Others: Thompson CSF, NEC, 3M, Panasonic, Sony, LG,

Universities all around the world

So Why Now?

The IDC predicts that in 2020 the world will have over 40,000 Exabytes of stored data. "A large portion of this data is going to be warm to cold data, and we need something better than tape and disk to store it,"

-  Frank Frankovsky, VP of Facebook’s hardware design and supply chain operations, January 2014

… and necessity is the mother of invention

Reason #1: There is a Need…

Data Creators Are Increasing…

The Results Are Showing…

à 500 TB per day

Just a sampling of things to come

à 144K hrs (86 TB) per day

à Storing over 1 Exabyte (1 million TB)

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Perceived Data Creation-Future

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Data Creation Outpacing Data Storage

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Reason #2: A Confluence of Technology has Occurred

Blue Diodes/LEDs Micro Displays

CMOS cameras

Akonia’s Photopolymer media

Electronics/FPGA

... The rest is packaging (Not simple, but very doable)

Drive Overview Reason #3: The Technology has been Proven

Optical Mechanical Assembly

Loader

Electronics

InPhase 300GB Prototype Holographic Drives 20MB/s Transfer Rate

•  95% Complete (Firmware & Interface was Last) •  Writing and Reading 300GB Routinely

Actual Drive Photos

52 Prototypes Completed (2009)

What Does the Future Hold for Holographic Storage?

Why Bother with Holographic Data Storage

§  Cold/Warm Storage is approximately 50% of storage requirements

§  Inexpensive – Uses Polymer Media §  Random Access – Unlike Tape §  Environmentally robust §  Low Energy Cost - compared to magnetic disk

•  Data Centers predicted to use 15% of world’s energy by 2025

§  Technology capable of 500Terabytes on a single disk •  Equivalent of 20,000 BluRay Disks

How does holographic look in 2018…

Tape •  IBM, HP, Quantum, Oracle •  6TB/tape •  $10/TB media cost •  180MB/s Transfer Rate

BDXL •  Sony, Panasonic, Hitachi, (Facebook) •  3.6TB/Magazine (300GB/disk) •  $400/TB media cost in 2014 •  20MB/s Transfer Rate

Akonia’s 1st Generation Holographic Storage Device •  25TB/Magazine (2.5TB/card) •  $8/TB media cost in 2018 •  200MB/s Transfer Rate

Akonia’s New Developments

Capacity: Up to 16TB/Disk by 2020 §  2018: 2-4TB/disk -> Dynamic Aperture1, Homodyne2

1.) Mark Ayres: ODS Talk – Tuesday 4pm 2.) Adam Urness: ODS Talk – Tuesday 5:15pm

§  2020: 8-16TB/disk -> Quadrature Homodyne + Akonia Proprietary Advancements* *To be revealed in 2015

Media ü DRED’s: 6x Improvement in Dynamic Range (M#)

Transfer Rate •  >200MB/s transfer rate … but how?

Let’s Talk Transfer Rate?

Improving Write Transfer Rate by 12x

Akonia’s Initial Transfer Rate Target: 200MB/s

Improving Write Transfer Rate to 255MB/s

4 Main Improvements: 1.  7x More Pixels – 10MPixel SLM 2.  7x Faster Galvos – Small Mirror size 3.  2x More laser power – 300mW available 4.  4x More Cure Power – Use LEDs

Akonia’s Holographic Disk Library System

(Initial Estimated Specifications)

•  6 Petabytes Per Libary •  Storage life >50 years with wide temp. range •  5-10 seconds average access time •  200 MBytes/sec transfer rate (max)

Holographic: Roadmap to a Competitive Drive

Product Generation Gen 1 Gen 2 Gen 3

Density Magazine Capacity

2.0 Tb/in2

25 TB

4 Tb/in2

100 TB

8 Tb/in2

200 TB

Product Speed 200 MB/s 350 MB/s 500MB/s

Dynamic Aperture

Homodyne Quadrature Homodyne

To Be Announced In 2015

Google Storage

“Since the beginning of time until 2003 humans generated 5 Billion GigaBytes worth of data. Today, we generate that amount of data every two days. Next year we will generate that amount of data every 10 minutes.”

Jan. 10, 2013 Stuart Miniman

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