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Microsoft’s Research team is working on a way to store large amounts of data on glass plates that could help reduce the size of data centers

Data storage that will last up to 10,000 years and doesn't require electricity, Microsoft's Project Silica will use glass to revolutionize the cloud.

3,500 films or 1.75 million songs can be stored on a single, small glass disk. Microsoft is currently developing the data storage of the future.

"If we carry on the way we're going, we're going to have to concrete the whole planet just to store the data that we're generating," explains a deputy lab director at Microsoft Research Cambridge in a new video. Fortunately, "A small sheet of glass can now hold several terabytes of data, enough to...

Started in 2002, the Fedora Project provides upstream or cutting edge source for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. "Installing Linux distributions can be a daunting task," said Matthew Miller, Fedora Project Lead.