@inproceedings{anderson2023project,
author = {Anderson, Patrick and Aranas, Erika B. and Assaf, Youssef and Behrendt, Raphael and Black, Richard and Caballero, Marco and Cameron, Pashmina and Canakci, Burcu and Carvalho, Thales de and Chatzieleftheriou, Andromachi and Clegg, James and Clarke, Rebekah Storan and Cletheroe, Daniel and Cooper, Bridgette and Deegan, Tim and Donnelly, Austin and Drevinskas, Rokas and Gaunt, Alexander and Gkantsidis, Christos and Gomez Diaz, Ariel and Haller, Istvan and Hong, Freddie and Ilieva, Teodora and Joshi, Shashidhar and Joyce, Russell and Kunkel, Mint and Lara, David and Legtchenko, Sergey and Liu, Fanglin Linda and Magalhaes, Bruno and Marzoev, Alana and McNett, Marvin and Mohan, Jayashree and Myrah, Michael and Nguyen, Truong and Nowozin, Sebastian and Ogus, Aaron and Overweg, Hiske and Rowstron, Ant and Sah, Maneesh and Sakakura, Masaaki and Scholtz, Peter and Schreiner, Nina and Sella, Omer and Smith, Adam and Stefanovici, Ioan and Sweeney, David and Thomsen, Benn and Verkes, Govert and Wainman, Phil and Westcott, Jonathan and Weston, Luke and Whittaker, Charles and Berenguer, Pablo Wilke and Williams, Hugh and Winkler, Thomas and Winzeck, Stefan},
title = {Project Silica: Towards Sustainable Cloud Archival Storage in Glass},
booktitle = {The 29th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles},
year = {2023},
month = {October},
abstract = {Sustainable and cost-effective long-term storage remains an unsolved problem. The most widely used storage technologies today are magnetic (hard disk drives and tape).  They use media that degrades over time and has a limited lifetime, which leads to inefficient, wasteful, and costly solutions for long-lived data.

This paper presents Silica: the first cloud storage system for archival data underpinned by quartz glass, an extremely resilient media that allows data to be left in situ indefinitely. The hardware and software of Silica have been co-designed and co-optimized from the media up to the service level with sustainability as a primary objective. The design follows a cloud-first, data-driven methodology underpinned by principles derived from analyzing the archival workload of a large public cloud service. Silica can support a wide range of archival storage workloads and ushers in a new era of sustainable, cost-effective storage.},
url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/project-silica-towards-sustainable-cloud-archival-storage-in-glass/},
}