Project HSD: this is how Microsoft studies how to improve holographic storage and its implementation in the cloud

Every time we require more storage capacity in our daily lives The days of three and a half or five and a quarter and its low capacity. We have hundreds of gigabyte microSD cards and recently we've seen removable SSDs for new Microsoft consoles with a terabyte of capacity.

We are talking about physical storage, via flash, but at Microsoft they are already thinking about the next leap and yesterday at their Ignite conference, the company announced Project HSDThis is a new way to determine the possibility of using holographic storage in the cloud.

Holograms to store data

Holographic storage is not something new, as it has been around since the 1960s. time to store information and thus record pages of data that are stored as a small hologram inside a crystal.

The novelty is that now Microsoft sees its use in the cloud as feasible and for this initiative to come to fruition, a tool is essential that accompanies us on a daily basis such as smart mobile phones.

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Thanks to the use of the smartphone&39;s camera the original holographic storage technique can be improved. In fact, Microsoft Research Cambridge, one of the collaborators in the project together with Microsoft Azure, affirms that they have achieved a density 1.8 times higher than that achieved by volumetric holographic storage, and aims to further increase density and access rates."

We all associate hologram with this sequence

The goal of this project is to take advantage of smartphone cameras, which are increasingly powerful and with higher resolution, combined with deep learning techniques(deep learning) and thus make the process more affordable and accessible. when using commercial hardware and software.

This solves one of the problems of this technique, which is that holographic storage traditionally requires complex optics to achieve the coincidence of pixels one by one on the glass with the camera that reads it. Manufacturing tolerances can now be reduced through software level calibrations and compensations.

This technique would achieve a ability to write and read several bits in parallel, bits available with holographic storage, Now the goal is achieve with this system high access rates and high data performance avoiding bottlenecks.

Via | ZDNet