Laser Focus World is an industry bedrock—first published in 1965 and still going strong. We publish original articles about cutting-edge advances in lasers, optics, photonics, sensors, and quantum technologies, as well as test and measurement, and the shift currently underway to usher in the photonic integrated circuits, optical interconnects, and copackaged electronics and photonics to deliver the speed and efficiency essential for data centers of the future.

Our 80,000 qualified print subscribers—and 130,000 12-month engaged online audience—trust us to dive in and provide original journalism you won’t find elsewhere covering key emerging areas such as laser-driven inertial confinement fusion, lasers in space, integrated photonics, chipscale lasers, LiDAR, metasurfaces, high-energy laser weaponry, photonic crystals, and quantum computing/sensors/communications. We cover the innovations driving these markets.

Laser Focus World is part of Endeavor Business Media, a division of EndeavorB2B.

Laser Focus World Membership

Never miss any articles, videos, podcasts, or webinars by signing up for membership access to Laser Focus World online. You can manage your preferences all in one place—and provide our editorial team with your valued feedback.

Magazine Subscription

Can you subscribe to receive our print issue for free? Yes, you sure can!

Newsletter Subscription

Laser Focus World newsletter subscription is free to qualified professionals:

The Daily Beam

Showcases the newest content from Laser Focus World, including photonics- and optics-based applications, components, research, and trends. (Daily)

Product Watch

The latest in products within the photonics industry. (9x per year)

Bio & Life Sciences Product Watch

The latest in products within the biophotonics industry. (4x per year)

Laser Processing Product Watch

The latest in products within the laser processing industry. (3x per year)

Get Published!

If you’d like to write an article for us, reach out with a short pitch to Sally Cole Johnson: [email protected]. We love to hear from you.

Photonics Hot List

Laser Focus World produces a video newscast that gives a peek into what’s happening in the world of photonics.

Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast

Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast dives deep into the fascinating world of photonics. Our weekly episodes feature interviews and discussions with industry and research experts, providing valuable perspectives on the issues, technologies, and trends shaping the photonics community.

Editorial Advisory Board

  • Professor Andrea M. Armani, University of Southern California
  • Ruti Ben-Shlomi, Ph.D., LightSolver
  • James Butler, Ph.D., Hamamatsu
  • Natalie Fardian-Melamed, Ph.D., Columbia University
  • Justin Sigley, Ph.D., AmeriCOM
  • Professor Birgit Stiller, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, and Leibniz University of Hannover
  • Professor Stephen Sweeney, University of Glasgow
  • Mohan Wang, Ph.D., University of Oxford
  • Professor Xuchen Wang, Harbin Engineering University
  • Professor Stefan Witte, Delft University of Technology

Storj Partners With Atempo to Reduce Cost and Enhance Security, Performance for Cloud Archiving for Media and Entertainment

By: WebWire

Storj, the leader in enterprise-grade, globally distributed cloud object storage, today announced its partnership with global data protection and management leader Atempo. The integration with Atempo Miria will help media and entertainment organizations capture, store, distribute, and protect video files from anywhere in the world at a lower cost, without sacrificing security or performance.

The need for video file storage has increased as media organizations continue to generate vast libraries of digital assets. But storage capacity is only part of the equation—video creators need solutions that are quick and efficient to facilitate file sharing remotely and increase overall productivity. Together, Atempo's Miria Archiving module and Storj's decentralized approach to cloud storage achieve this by providing a cost-effective solution that preserves media assets at scale for a long period of time.

Video sharing and storage that is fast, secure and low cost

“We've accomplished faster, more secure and more cost-effective cloud storage by using globally distributed nodes as opposed to centralized data centers, which are subject to cyber attacks and price lock-in,” said Storj CEO Ben Golub. “With Atempo, we're bringing these advantages to the M&E industry at a fraction of the cost of legacy cloud storage solutions, so that production teams can quickly access, share, archive, and collaborate, no matter where they are.”

Storj and Atempo's joint solution is at the forefront of addressing the needs of the media and entertainment industry, with features such as:


  • Encrypted storage: With Storj, every file and its metadata is encrypted before it is split up into 80 pieces using erasure coding. Each piece is stored on one of 16,000 nodes operating around the world, which enables downloading large files to be geographically optimized.

  • Fast uploads and downloads: Atempo's Miria empowers end users with secure and high-performance data movement for quick accessibility. Miria can be configured with dedicated data movers that keep editor's workstations and central file servers out of the data path so users are not slowed down, even as capacities climb past the petabyte level.

  • Global accessibility: Miria provides rich search and retrieval capabilities—from a drag-and-drop graphical user interface (GUI) to archive files and metadata search.

  • Optimized collaboration: Miria makes it simple to share a cloud archive between users of multiple remote sites allowing all users to use the more current media assets.



Improve production workflow

“Storing and securely retrieving large video files or unedited footage from a film or TV show is critical to a team's workflow,” said Louis Laszlo, VP of Product Management for Atempo. “The distributed cloud storage model that Storj uses, combined with Atempo's Miria Archive solution, enables teams to access, manage, protect, and even share massive volumes of data, so that media professionals remain creative and productive even when working remotely.”

Storj and Atempo will be at the 2022 NAB Show October 17-20 in New York. Stop by Storj's booth 1721 to learn how a distributed storage solution can upgrade your M&E collaboration.

To learn more about Storj and Atempo's partnership and how the future of cloud storage is globally distributed storage, join the upcoming webinar with Forrester analyst Martha Bennett on October 25 at 12 p.m. ET: https://hubs.li/Q01nVWh20.

About Storj

Storj is a leader in decentralized cloud object storage. Built for developers, architects, and IT ops professionals, Storj delivers blazingly fast, CDN-like performance at cold storage prices, enterprise-grade durability, and better security with no vendor lock-in and no single points of failure. Storj meets the leading-edge privacy and sustainability demands for traditional use cases, Web3, and dApps. Easily integrated into any existing stack with S3 compatibility, Storj is architected as a trustless globally distributed network that utilizes existing excess storage capacity making performance, privacy, and resiliency available to any size organization, at 1/5 to 1/20 the price of hyperscalers. Storj stores multiple petabytes and has petabyte-scale enterprise and Web3 customers and partners like Pocket Network, Atempo, iXsystems, Gabb Wireless, and the University of Edinburgh. STORJ is an ERC-20 token used across the Storj network.

To learn more about Storj, visit storj.io. Follow us on Twitter at @storj.

About Atempo

Atempo is a leading independent European-based software vendor with an established global presence that includes thousands of prestigious customers worldwide. Atempo provides solutions to protect, store, move and recover all mission-critical data sets. With over 30 years of data protection and data management, Atempo offers a complete portfolio of solutions from physical and virtual server backup to global data management across heterogenous storage. For more information visit www.atempo.com.

— WebWireID295383 —


Stock Quote API & Stock News API supplied by www.cloudquote.io
Quotes delayed at least 20 minutes.
By accessing this page, you agree to the following
Privacy Policy and Terms Of Service.