Project Silica is a Microsoft project that fundamentally rethinks storage system architecture and technology, with the goal of storing over 100 zettabytes of data in the cloud by 2023. In 2019, we ...

Project Silica's technology offers more efficient, resilient, and eco-friendly data storage compared to conventional magnetic storage. The advanced technology, still in its early stages, could pave ...

Storing up to 7TB of data on something the size of a DVD might not sound all that groundbreaking in a time where SSD storage with that sort of capacity is notably smaller in physical stature.

The last time we talked about Microsoft's Project Silica was about four years ago when Microsoft was showing off a proof of concept. The company managed to write Warner Bros' Superman movie on a tiny ...

Microsoft has been experimenting with glass as a data storage medium for some years, and is now pivoting that research towards long-term data centre storage. First mooted in 2017, Project Silica ...

Discover Microsoft's revolutionary glass data storage technology, designed to preserve digital information for up to 10,000 years. This video explains how Project Silica uses advanced laser data ...

Recap: It's been nearly four years since we first heard about Project Silica, a Microsoft Research project tasked with storing digital data on sheets of glass. At the time, Microsoft was able to ...