Articles about data storage

Richard Black holds a Project Silica data storage platter

Microsoft joins with students to document humanity with a ‘Golden Record’ of glass

Forty-seven years after NASA sent a “Golden Record” into deep space to document humanity’s view of the world, Microsoft’s Project… Read More

Microsoft helps found an industry alliance to advance DNA data storage systems

Microsoft is teaming up with other companies to form an alliance to advance the field of DNA data storage, which… Read More

University of Washington and Microsoft researchers win award for DNA-based data storage

University of Washington computer science professor Luis Ceze and Microsoft principal research manager Karin Strauss have won a prestigious award… Read More

Microsoft and Univ. of Washington join Georgia Tech team in $25M DNA data storage project

The University of Washington and Microsoft will take part in a federally funded effort to develop data storage techniques using… Read More

Cloud Constellation chooses LeoStella to build cloud data satellites in Seattle area

Cloud Constellation Corp. has chosen LeoStella, the U.S.-European joint venture based in Tukwila, Wash., to build satellites for its cloud-based… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Podcast: Bezos and the bots, DNA data storage, and Seattle startups learn to co-exist with Silicon Valley giants

Every year, Amazon and Jeff Bezos hold an elite, invitation-only conference called MARS, for Machine learning, Automation, Robotics and Space, which doubles as an… Read More

Microsoft and University of Washington demonstrate automated DNA data storage

DNA data storage holds the promise of putting huge amounts of information into a test tube — but who wants… Read More

Boeing HorizonX invests in Agylstor to boost ruggedized data storage systems

The latest investment by Boeing’s HorizonX venture capital arm is going to Agylstor, a Silicon Valley startup that’s developing ruggedized… Read More

DNA data storage system rises past 400 megabytes — find out how to store yours

Scientists from the University of Washington and Microsoft are improving their system for preserving digital data in strands of synthetic… Read More

UW scientists can weave digital passwords and IDs into the threads of your clothing

Want to wear your password on your sleeve? Computer scientists from the University of Washington can make it so. A… Read More

UW scientists demonstrate how evildoers could eventually hack into DNA data

Computer scientists are turning DNA into a new frontier for data storage and information processing, but a team from the… Read More

Newly created 2-D magnet could point the way to slimmer, faster computers

For the first time, researchers have discovered magnetism in the two-dimensional realm of monolayers, or materials that consist of a… Read More

UW, Microsoft and Twist Bioscience double down on DNA data storage experiments

Twist Bioscience says it’s extending its collaboration with Microsoft and the University of Washington on a project aimed at perfecting… Read More

A new low in digital data storage: Information encoded in chlorine atoms

Researchers have stored and read out a kilobyte’s worth of data using the world’s smallest hard disk – a speck of… Read More

Video in a test tube? Microsoft and UW raise the bar for DNA data storage systems

Computer scientists from Microsoft and the University of Washington say they’ve set a new standard for DNA storage of digital… Read More

Encoding data in DNA for millennia? UW and Microsoft Research are on it

Data storage is getting better and better, but the final frontier for the long-term preservation of digital bits may well… Read More

Stealthy enterprise data storage startup Qumulo raises $40M, adds Isilon founder to board

Hang around the Qumulo office long enough, and you’ll certainly see someone whizzing by on a Razor scooter. The two-wheelers… Read More