Microsoft has issued a paper for the largely-anticipated glass-based storage tech that it's been planning to replace the traditional technology that's best fitted into the hard drives and best SSDs out in the market today.
The academic paper was presented at the 29th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles and highlights the principles for the organization's future plans in building a robust, long-lasting, and highly effective storage system.
The science behind it Data is written in voxels on a square glass platter using ultrafast femtosecond lasers.
These are irreversible modifications to the physical structure of the glass which permit numerous bits of data to be encoded in layers over the glass's surface.
These layers are then layered in hundreds vertically.
They use polarization microscopy technology to picture the platter before reading data, and the read drive scans sectors in a Z-pattern.
The photos are then analyzed and decoded using a machine-learning model to transform analogue signals into digital data.
Because of the secure nature of archival glass storage, the medium is appropriate for various sensitive industries, including financing, scientific research, and medical care, implying that firms in these areas may be able to resist ransomware cyberattacks attacking data stored on the cloud.
In light of Azure cloud storage consumption patterns, Microsoft is now investigating how to configure best the physical library in which the glass is stored.
This Cyber News was published on www.cysecurity.news. Publication date: Fri, 08 Dec 2023 18:28:05 +0000