Project HSD: Holographic Storage Device for the Cloud

January 17, 2022

Every email you send, every selfie you take, every TikTok video you post adds to the amount of digital data in the world. And that pile of data is growing at an astonishing rate. According to recent estimates, by 2025,…

September 24, 2020

Early research on what could one day live in the cloud Microsoft has announced Project HSD, an effort to build holographic storage devices for its Azure cloud service. While the idea of storing data throughout the volume of the medium…

September 24, 2020

When people think of holograms, they may think of the small insignia on credit cards that appear to move as you rotate the card. Or they may think of recent rock concert spectacles featuring realistic 3-D performances by singers who…

September 23, 2020

It's possible thanks to modern smartphone cameras. Microsoft is looking beyond flash storage and hard drives to handle the seemingly unstoppable demand for cloud storage. Yesterday at its Ignite conference, the company announced Project HSD (via ZDNet), a new research initiative that’s exploring…

September 23, 2020

Project Holographic Storage Device works on new holographic storage device for 'warm' data in the cloud. Microsoft Research has announced Project HSD, detailing its work on a new holographic storage device (HSD) built for cloud-scale data that has a potential…

September 22, 2020

In addition to living in a digital age, our lives have also started to revolve around clouds, that is, cloud storage and services. This elusive and ephemeral concept, however, still needs to be tethered to physical realities and limited by…