This obscure company could’ve taken the storage market by storm – but building commercially viable holographic storage was simply a bridge too far

In the early 2000s, a Bell Labs spin-out aimed to shake up the storage industry with the development of powerful new holographic devices.

Holographic storage, which has since drawn the attention of a host of big tech companies, including Microsoft, could’ve potentially offered huge data storage gains compared to traditional methods.

This volumetric storage medium uses lasers to store data in three dimensions, as opposed to DVDs or hard disks which store data on the surface.

Having spun out from Bell Labs in 2000, Colorado-based InPhase Technologies looked ...