Microsoft successfully stores Superman film on a piece of glass

Microsoft's CEO, Satya Nadella, holds the future of hosting industry.

Microsoft has proven that we can store data on glass , a technology that we still know is feasible but have not seen any "technology giants" dare to claim success. Microsoft's team of researchers has partnered with renowned film studio Warner Bros. to execute the incredible project: containing the milestone of the cinema, the 1978 Superman movie, into a piece of glass measuring 75x75x2 millimeters.

The Microsoft Research department is the place to come up with this idea and implement it successfully. The team is part of Microsoft's billion-dollar investment to find new storage technologies that will serve as a solid springboard for the Azure platform in the future.

The 1978 Superman movie is saved to a 75x75x2 millimeter piece of glass.

'We built this whole system successfully thanks to the new cold storage technology , ' Satya Nadella, Microsoft's CEO, said on the Ignite stage. Microsoft only uses regular quartz, but the glass still withstands high temperatures and scratch resistance. This new research project has a full "codename", Project Silica , focusing solely on developing data storage and storage technologies.

Since the existence of data, the human race has struggled to save it and pass it on to the next generation. But books can rot, photos will fade over time, even hard drives are not a way to store digital data securely. Researchers have had this problem for a long time, and Microsoft is not the first unit to experiment with data storage on glass.

But Google's claims make us believe in a successful future of new data storage. Warner Bros. has trusted them to permanently store digital assets, with copies that do not fade over time.

This new research project has a full "codename", which is the Silica Project.

Entertainment companies now make backups by converting digital movies into analog films, dividing them into three parts with three colors - cyan, magenta. and yellow, then turn each of these colors into a black and white negative film because they won't fade like digital color film.

These negatives will be stored in cold vaults with strictly controlled temperature and humidity, plus a chemical sensor system that can 'smell' any chemical change - Unusual signs indicate that the film may be damaged. Will have to reverse the complex steps just mentioned to get back to the perfect movie.

This is an expensive and expensive process, and Microsoft wants to shorten the time to store the movies, bypassing the cumbersome and expensive process.'If the Silica Project solution is successful at a low cost and on a large scale - we also understand that these are just early days of testing - we expect other studios, other companies and other industries to all want to use this technology, ' said Vicky Colf, chief technology officer of Warner Bros. talk. 'If successful, I think this technology will benefit anyone who wants to preserve and store any content.'

The data will be inside the glass, and machine learning algorithms will decode what is in the glass to retrieve the data.

Microsoft uses infrared lasers to encode data into 'voxels' - similar to pixels on your screen, but different in that it has three dimensions. The data will be inside the glass, and machine learning algorithms will decode what is in the glass to retrieve the data.

Currently, Microsoft is still testing this technology, and has just published scientific reports. If they succeed, we will probably build a center for storing and processing data under the sea.