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 ...

A research team figured out a way to write data onto wafers of glass using lasers, and that glass can hold the data for 10,000 years.

Discover Microsoft's revolutionary glass data storage technology, designed to preserve digital information for up to 10,000 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most of the world's information is stored digitally right now. Every year, we generate more data than we did the year before. Now, with AI in the picture, a technology that relies on a whole lot of ...

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 ...

Borosilicate glass, the same material used in lab equipment and kitchen cookware, can encode data using femtosecond lasers at densities and lifespans no existing archival medium can match, according ...

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 ...