Microsoft has purchased 10,000,000 strands of DNA from biology startup Twist Bioscience towards researching digital data storage solutions.

This will bring DNA data storage performance and cost significantly closer to tape,” Microsoft told TechRadar. As promising as this all sounds, we are many years away from storing data on DNA.

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.

Microsoft Fabric is an end-to-end suite of cloud-based tools for data analytics, encompassing data movement, data storage, data engineering, data integration, data science, real-time analytics ...

Microsoft is working on a new kind of storage technology, called Project Silica, that could store data essentially forever without any electricity.

Microsoft believes synthetic DNA could be the next big leap in long-term data storage, with just one gram of DNA capable of storing 215 petabytes of data for up to 2,000 years.

Most current data storage systems eventually stop working. Could storing digital information in DNA be the answer?

The pink smear in this test tube is DNA that has been synthesized to store digital data for long-term storage. Microsoft used the same technique to store roughly 200 megabytes of data.

3,500 films or 1.75 million songs can be stored on a single, small glass disk. Microsoft is currently developing the data storage of the future.

Most current data storage systems eventually stop working. Could storing digital information in DNA be the answer?