The last time we talked about Microsoft's Project Silica was about four years ago when Microsoft was showing off a proof of concept. The company managed to write Warner Bros' Superman movie on a tiny ...

Microsoft has concluded a years-long experiment involving use of a shipping container-sized underwater data center, placed on the sea floor off the cost of Scotland’s Orkney Islands. The company ...

Microsoft plans to build a new data center in Caledonia, Wisconsin, on roughly 244 acres of land. The project requires the land to be rezoned, a decision that rests with the village's Plan Commission ...

The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, is announcing that DocumentDB—a fast-growing open source document database from Microsoft—has joined the ...

Microsoft Research, the R&D arm of the Redmond software giant, is testing the storage of huge amounts of data on glass plates in a futuristic initiative dubbed “Project Silica.” If successful, it ...

Storing up to 7TB of data on something the size of a DVD might not sound all that groundbreaking in a time where SSD storage with that sort of capacity is notably smaller in physical stature.

Microsoft’s recent launch of a standalone version of the MongoDB compatibility layer for its global-scale Azure Cosmos DB brought back an old name. Back in 2018, when the company unveiled a public ...