If you have ever owned a computer, especially over previous decades, you know that the type of storage used has changed many times. Thankfully, we’re long removed from the days of hard drives taking ...

To successfully tackle artificial intelligence (AI) workloads is not just about throwing compute and storage resources at it. Sure, you need enough processing power and the storage to supply it with ...

Forward-looking: Modern data storage has a short lifespan. Hard drives fail, SSDs wear out, and even magnetic tape needs periodic rewriting to avoid degradation. Now, an ambitious technology is aiming ...

The takeaway: Microsoft and other data center operators are racing to develop new methods for storing massive amounts of data on permanent media. Redmond is pursuing a technology based on glass and ...

For roughly a decade, Microsoft has been perfecting a high-density storage technology that uses glass, lasers, and cameras, and ensures it stays intact for millennia. That's a huge improvement over ...