Microsoft inches closer to glass storage breakthrough that could finally make ransomware attacks impossible in the data center and hyperscalers — but only Azure customers will benefit from it

The technology is strikingly similar to ceramics-based storage and may replace current day technology soon

December 6, 2023 · 1 min · 65 words · Michael Wyatt

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Project Silica has been years in the making with Microsoftteaing a prototypeas far back as 2019.

How does glass-based storage work?

Somebody holding a pane of glass on which you can store data

Data is written in a square glass platter with ultrafast femtosecond lasers through voxels.

These layers are then stacked vertically in their hundreds.