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In the news | Ars Technica
Satya Nadella: The cloud is going to move underwater
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says that underwater server farms are part of the company’s plans for future data centers. Microsoft has been experimenting with underwater servers for some time. Project Natick put a server pod underwater off the coast of…
Storing digital data in synthetic DNA with Dr. Karin Strauss
| Karin Strauss
Episode 48, October 31, 2018 – Dr. Strauss talks about life at the intersection of computer science and biology which, for many, is more like the intersection of science fiction and science, and explains how the unique properties of DNA…
Putting the cloud under the sea with Ben Cutler
Episode 40, September 5, 2018 – In today’s podcast we find out a bit about what else the Special Projects team is up to, and then we hear all about Project Natick and how Ben and his team conceived of,…
In the news | DailyMail.UK
Microsoft’s underwater cloud: First subsea datacenter is launched off the coast of Scotland, and could one day improve your internet speeds
Microsoft is testing a shipping-container-sized datacenter that will provide cloud services from the bottom of the ocean. The years-long ‘Project Natick’ effort recently moved into its second phase of development, with a prototype deployed to the seafloor near Scotland’s Orkney…
In the news | ZDNet
Microsoft’s DNA storage breakthrough could pave way for exabyte drives
The prospect of storing vast amounts of data on DNA has come closer to reality thanks to a new technique for retrieving data.