Microsoft has developed a storage technology primarily designed for cloud purposes.
Project Silica uses laser pulses to encode data in glass, creating a durable, long-lasting storage medium. Data are encoded in so called voxels which are 3 dimensional data points.
Microsoft claims that that the 7 TB storage per glass sheet maintains data integrity for up to 10,000 years.
This promising idea is being researched and organized into a write lab, a read lab, a decode lab as well a library lab
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