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Project Silica is a Microsoft Research initiative that stores digital data in glass using femtosecond lasers. The system writes terabytes of information into a durable glass platter, with a projected media lifetime exceeding 10,000 years. Recent work, published in Nature, demonstrates repeatable laser writing and machine-learning decoding for reliable archival storage. This tag covers discussions about the technology, its optical engineering, and its potential for long-term data preservation.
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    Microsoft Project Silica Is Not Available Yet—Don’t Replace LTO

    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...
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    Project Silica: Terabyte Glass Storage for 10,000-Year Archives

    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...
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