Computer scientists have been researching new and better ways to store information ever since, well, computers were invented. PC components have come a long way since computers needed hard drives the ...

Project Silica, Microsoft’s almost decade-long project to encode digital data inside glass, has just achieved a significant breakthrough in terms of the materials used. It’s been a while since we ...

Microsoft Research has published a peer-reviewed paper describing a complete glass-based archival storage system that can hold 4.8 terabytes of data on a single disc, with researchers estimating the ...

Microsoft Research Cambridge has begun "inventing and prototyping the next generation of cloud storage systems." The group previously developed Project Silica, an archival data storage system of laser ...

Microsoft this week detailed new research aimed at preserving data in borosilicate glass plates for thousands of years longer than conventional media like hard drives or magnetic tape, without needing ...

Boffins at the software king of the world, Microsoft, have emerged from their smoke-filled labs with a piece of glass which they say can store data for more than 10,000 years. In Nature on 18 February ...

Microsoft is betting on glass data storage for the kind of files you can’t afford to lose, the records that have to survive hardware refreshes, format changes, and decades of time. Its Project Silica ...

Microsoft’s Project Silica can store 5TB of data on glass for 10,000 years, offering a durable, energy-free solution to prevent data rot. Explore Get the web's best business technology news, tutorials ...

Microsoft's Project Silica will be used as a proof of concept to see if it can store a backup copy of the entire world's music collection. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens ...