project silica

Microsoft Project Silica is not a reason to delay today’s backup, disaster-recovery, or ransomware-resilience investments. It is a significant archival-storage breakthrough, but IT leaders should treat it as a signal to identify data that may justify a future immutable archive tier—not as a...

Microsoft Research’s latest step in Project Silica — published as a full-system demonstration in Nature — is a serious piece of optical-engineering work: researchers have shown repeatable femtosecond-laser writing and machine‑learning decoding that can put terabytes of archived data into a 120...