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HoloMem will need to be competitive, as looming over the market is a formidable competitor.<\/p>\n
Through its research arm, Microsoft is developing its own long-term data storage system.<\/p>\n
Like HoloMem it has decided that it’s time to move on from magnetic tape, but Microsoft has chosen glass as it storage material.<\/p>\n
Called Project Silica, the system uses powerful lasers to create tiny structural changes in the glass, called voxels that can be used to store data. The voxels are incredibly small and can be packed into layers.<\/p>\n
Microsoft says that a 2mm thick piece of glass about the size of a DVD would be able to store more than seven terabytes of data.<\/p>\n
The system stores the glass panes on racks, where they can be accessed by small crab-like robots that zip along rails.<\/p>\n
Cheap and durable, glass is an attractive storage medium says Richard Black, who heads up Project Silica.<\/p>\n
“It’s pretty much immune to temperature, humidity, particulates, electromagnetic fields,” says Mr Black.<\/p>\n
It could potentially preserve data for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years.<\/p>\n
Such a system could, one day, be integrated into Microsoft’s huge cloud computing business, Azure.<\/p>\n
But that is some way off as the system has years of development ahead of it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
getty<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\nIWM is testing whether AI can distinguish between Spitfire models<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n\n
Back in Duxford, the Imperial War Museum, like many organisations, has been experimenting with artificial intelligence. They recently tested whether AI could identify different models of Spitfire in pictures from its image catalogue.<\/p>\n
Mr Crawford thinks that AI could be incredibly useful in cataloguing its digital library, work that would take humans hundreds of years. <\/p>\n
The ability of AI to trawl through vast amounts of data has made keeping that data even more important – there could be something valuable lurking there.<\/p>\n
“In the past business was archiving data just in case they needed it. Now there’s an actual business reason why they might want to go back and do some analytics,” says Mr Robinson.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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