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SUMMARY:Project Silica: Re-designing Cloud storage for a new era - Androma
 chi Chatzieleftheriou (Microsoft Research)
DTSTART:20200214T130000Z
DTEND:20200214T140000Z
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CONTACT:Zahra Tarkhani
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nThe demand for long-term data storage is reaching u
 nprecedented levels\, which requires a fundamental re-thinking of how we b
 uild large-scale storage systems\, as well as the underlying storage techn
 ologies that underpin them. In Project Silica at Microsoft Research we are
  developing the first-ever storage technology designed and built from the 
 media up for the cloud. We leverage recent discoveries in ultrafast laser 
 optics to store data in quartz glass and use powerful machine learning to 
 read the data back. In this talk\, I will describe how we use optics to st
 ore data inside glass\, and how we challenge the traditional storage syste
 ms design to build the future hardware and software infrastructure for the
  cloud.\n\nBio:\nAndromachi Chatzieleftheriou is a Senior Researcher in th
 e Cloud Infrastructure group at Microsoft Research Cambridge. Her research
  interests include storage and data center systems. She received her PhD i
 n 2015 from the University of Ioannina in Greece\, focusing on improving t
 he data durability\, resource efficiency and performance in local and dist
 ributed filesystems.
LOCATION:Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building\, FW11
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