{"id":90416,"date":"2019-05-07T20:42:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T03:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/project-silica"},"modified":"2019-05-07T20:42:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T03:42:21","slug":"project-silica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/project-silica","title":{"rendered":"Project Silica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/project-silica.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is developing the first-ever storage technology designed and built from the media up, for the cloud. We are leveraging recent discoveries in ultrafast laser optics to store data in quartz glass by using femtosecond lasers, and building a completely new storage system designed from scratch around this technology. This opens up an incredibly exciting opportunity to challenge and completely re-think traditional storage system design, and to co-design the future hardware and software infrastructure for the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>We are hiring for this and related projects: Post-Doc Researchers in <a href=\"https:\/\/careers.microsoft.com\/us\/en\/job\/560756\/Post-Doc-Researcher-Storage-Software\">Storage Software<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/careers.microsoft.com\/us\/en\/job\/605605\/Researcher\">Optical Systems<\/a>, and internships in <a href=\"https:\/\/careers.microsoft.com\/us\/en\/job\/524014\/Internship-opportunities-Distributed-Systems-Network-and-Storage\">Software<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/careers.microsoft.com\/us\/en\/job\/524013\/Internship-opportunities-FPGA\">FPGA<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/careers.microsoft.com\/us\/en\/job\/524002\/Internship-opportunities-Electronics\">Electronics<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/careers.microsoft.com\/us\/en\/job\/524001\/Internship-opportunities-Optics\">Optics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This project is a collaboration with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orc.soton.ac.uk\/\">University of Southampton Optoelectonics Research Centre<\/a>, and was featured in a Microsoft Ignite 2017 keynote on future storage technologies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/project-silica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is developing the first-ever storage technology designed and built from the media up, for the cloud. We are leveraging recent discoveries in ultrafast laser optics to store data in quartz glass by using femtosecond lasers, and building a completely new storage system designed from scratch around this technology. This opens up an incredibly exciting opportunity [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}