China updates national computing plan with calls for more edge, storage, memory, and … Blu-ray?

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has issued a revised "Action Plan for the High-Quality Development of Computing Infrastructure" that emphasizes increased deployment of edge computing and the low-latency networks that make it possible. The plan, published on Monday, sets goals for the state of China's …

[Anonymous Coward]

What's wrong with blu-ray?

It's cheap and easily available. Sure 100Gb on a two sided disk isn't much these days, but a it'll cover many mostly-linear data sets - especially in one of those massive switchers....

[DuncanLarge]

Re: What's wrong with blu-ray?

Correction, one sided disc.

Also ODA uses a development of blu-ray to store terrabytes worth of data. I suspect maybe they are going to make their own version.

[I am David Jones]

My translation

As an expert in Chinese, I would translate “blu-ray” as “the friendly acquisition of other countries’ storage using blue-wavelength laser weapons”.

[Andy The Hat]

Re: My translation

as a non-expert, I'd suggest "blue-sky". After all the UK government talks about this all the time - "Dear researchers, please produce some unique and potentially valuable 'blue sky' research outcomes so we can refuse to invest in it and sell the idea to another state ... like China"

[EricB123]

Re: My translation

Laser weapons of the Jewish space laser kind.

[Lurko]

I wonder if there's a plan for all the processing power?

Or perhaps it's just the international willy-waving that drives so much of government policy around the world.

[DuncanLarge]

ODA

> Maybe it's time to think again about Blu-ray?

Maybe they are looking to make their own version of ODA?

You have to archive to something, either LTO tape, ODA or Bluray. There is nothing else at this time.

RDX doesn't count it's a HDD buffed up to survive a drop.

Also, in a modern IT environment you have to have read only options. Not all secure data is allowed on re-writable media where I work. Plenty of customers are still asking for 50GB or more of data burned onto DVD single layer, simply because it's R/O.

I'm trying to let them know that dual layer exists and if they invest on a USB bluray drive we can send them one disc instead.

[DS999]

Re: ODA

They probably don't care about ease of use. They have interns (if a business) or grad students (if a university) or privates (if the military) to be the monkeys swapping DVDs out for a couple hours.

[DuncanLarge]

Re: ODA

We have nothing like that here in the UK.

We in IT sometimes hire an "apprentice".

Anyway, the data I'm talking about cant be touched by anyone without the right clearances.

[Mike 16]

Benefits of BluRay

The wife and I often borrow disc copies of movies we missed, or Noir we

never knew existed, from the local library. Often DVD, but since a

DVD/BluRay player cost very little more than just DVD, we got that.

Since BluRay is considered a failed technologt, the demand/wait-list for

any given film is lower for the BluRay version.

Plus, of course, some of the "extras" on the BluRay version actually add

at least a bit of info.

Yes, of course I understand that the player is probably mining my whole

LAN for data it can sell, but then, so are the TVs and appliances.