My background is in the creation of magnetic recording heads and media using physical vapor deposition technology.

FORBES: The Engines of Innovation

As can be seen, traditional film use is 15% or less with digital technologies such as optical discs, hard disk drives, magnetic tape and flash memory are the bulk of modern recording media.

FORBES: End of the Reel

Jim was a frequent presenter at many industry events including many IDEMA conferences, the Head and Media Technology Review Conference, the 100th Anniversary of Magnetic Recording and Information Storage at Santa Clara University (SCU) as well as other events put on by the Institute of Information Storage Technology at SCU, and at his own DataStorage Conferences.

FORBES: A Silent Voice: James Porter, Dean of Storage Analysts Dies