Microsoft Advances Toward Glass-Based Archival Storage
Blocks&Files, Wednesday, November 22,2023
Project Silica, a Microsoft plan to store multiple layers of archival data inside slabs of quartz glass, is getting closer to becoming a product, as a 16-page document explains.
Microsoft's update of its glass archival storage project is an academic paper submitted to the 29th ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles (SOSP 2023).
The aim is to develop a cloud-scale archive media system for reading and writing data. The encoding technology is the production of areas with polarization-based patterns at points within a square glass slab, defined by 3D coordinates, and there can be hundreds of layers.