Microsoft Research has published a peer-reviewed paper in Nature describing a fully automated archival storage system that writes data into glass using ultrafast lasers, storing 4.8 terabytes on a ...

As data storage becomes ever cheaper, many of us have accumulated gigabytes (or even terabytes) of it that must be kept safe. Whether you're storing your data locally or in the cloud, the storage ...

A rectangular piece of translucent blue glass has several vertical sections of varying blue shades. This piece of glass has a copy of Microsoft flight simulator map data written into it using ...

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 ...