Microsoft has created a new storage method that is extremely durable and intended to power cold-storage libraries designed to ...

Project Silica introduces new techniques for encoding data in borosilicate glass, as described in the journal Nature. These ...

For roughly a decade, Microsoft has been perfecting a high-density storage technology that uses glass, lasers, and cameras, and ensures it stays intact for millennia. That's a huge improvement over ...

As data creation and storage accelerates in the AI age, magnetic media such as tape and hard disk drives face unavoidable ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: We are generating staggering amounts of data every day. Data centers just can’t keep up with the demand. With data storage needs expected to soar in ...

Microsoft Researchers Figure Out How to Store Data Inside Glass Using Lasers ...

Archival storage poses lots of challenges. We want media that is extremely dense and stable for centuries or more, and, ideally, doesn’t consume any energy when not being accessed. Lots of ideas have ...