Microsoft’s Glass Storage and the Future of Long Term Data

Microsoft has published peer-reviewed research demonstrating that data can be written into ordinary borosilicate glass and preserved for more than 10,000 years, positioning its ‘Project Silica’ work as a potential long-term archival storage platform for the cloud era.

The Challenge

This development addresses a persistent challenge for hyperscale cloud providers and large enterprises, i.e., how to store growing volumes of data reliably, economically and sustainably for decades.