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Optics for the cloud: storage in the zettabyte era with Dr. Ant Rowstron and Mark Russinovich
Remember when a hard drive that could hold a terabyte of data was a big deal? Well, we’re now in an era where peta-, exa- and even zetta-bytes are the bytes of the day, and it turns out it’s hard to fit…
Dans l’actualité | Movieweb
Superman: The Movie Gets Archived on Futuristic Glass Disc by Microsoft
Microsoft and Warner Bros. have partnered to preserve the iconic superhero movie on a piece of glass roughly the size of a coaster. The idea, hopefully, is that this type of storage technology could help to preserve classic movies for…
Dans l’actualité | Short List
Microsoft to send Superman to the Phantom Zone – will archive movie on glass
That small glass disc may not look too impressive or high-tech. But, in fact, it could be a way of storing data for hundreds of years. Storage is often a problem for film and TV studios – normally done on…
Dans l’actualité | ZDNet
Microsoft: Here’s why we just stored the whole Superman movie inside a bit of glass
The world has been hard at work trying to find solutions to store the 100 zettabytes of data that are expected to hit the cloud by 2023. Microsoft and Warner Bros, for their part, have just demonstrated why they think…
Dans l’actualité | PCWorld
Microsoft’s ‘Project Silica’ targets glass as the archival storage medium of the future
Microsoft has the broadest portfolio of software of any company, and at the firmâs annual Ignite conference, it proved it by introducing a raft of new products and services in cloud, development, security and management, and productivity. These include Azure…
Dans l’actualité | CRN
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s 5 Biggest Statements At Ignite 2019
With its latest wave of product announcements, Microsoft is focused squarely on turning every company into a tech company, CEO Satya Nadella said Monday during the Microsoft Ignite 2019 conference. Ignite, Microsoft’s conference for IT professionals and developers, is being…
Dans l’actualité | Digital Trends
DNA, laser-etched glass, and beyond: A peek into the future of data storage
For most of us, data storage has only gotten easier. Rather than messing around with computer hard drives with limited storage, floppy disks, and rewritable CDs or DVDs, today we just hit “save” on whatever file we’re working on and…
Dans l’actualité | CNET
Microsoft puts classic Superman on a piece of glass to keep it safe
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s… the latest concept test for Project Silica, Microsoft’s research project that uses ultrafast laser optics and artificial intelligence to store data on quartz glass. In collaboration with Warner Bros. Entertainment, the team was…
Dans l’actualité | Microsoft Innovation Stories
Project Silica proof of concept stores Warner Bros. ‘Superman’ movie on quartz glass
Microsoft and Warner Bros. have collaborated to successfully store and retrieve the entire 1978 iconic “Superman” movie on a piece of glass roughly the size of a drink coaster, 75 by 75 by 2 millimeters thick. It was the first…