As we want to offer the global music ecosystem an eternal solution, we believe that Microsoft’s Silica is that exact solution for our storage needs."įor further information about the Global Music Vault, visit their website. We not only want to put this high on the global music industry agenda, we want to work with the best companies in the world to find solutions. The loss of a glacier the size of Florida in Antarctica could wreak havoc on the world as scientists expect it would raise global sea levels up to 10 feet. Luke Jenkinson, Managing Director of Global Music Vault says of the urgent need for this advanced storage technology, "With over four million music producers globally, and over 60,000 songs being released just on Spotify every day, today's digital and physical data storage solutions are quickly becoming outdated, irrelevant and a risk to our future. The press releases states that "a laser encodes data in glass by creating layers of three-dimensional nanoscale gratings and deformations." It continues, "Machine learning algorithms read the data back by decoding images and patterns that are created as polarized light shines through the glass." The goal of the project is to archive and store "tens of petabytes" (one petabyte equals roughly 1,000 terabytes, and one terabyte equals about 1,000 gigabytes) each year, with each coaster-sized slate of glass possessing a data lifetime of "many thousands of years" with music able to be encoded (encrypted or unencrypted) in any digital file format. These glass platters are ideal for doomsday/apocalyptic scenarios and are said to be "fully resilient to electromagnetic pulses (EMP), and to the most challenging environmental conditions" as well as other hazards such as being baked, boiled, scoured and/or flooded "without degradation of the data written on the glass." Antarcticas Thwaites glacier, also known as the 'Doomsday Glacier' because of its potential to drive alarming sea level rise, isnt melting at a pace as fast as feared but deep. Deep beneath the barren surface of the Arctic tundra in Norway is the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, an international effort to safeguard sources of the world’s food supply.
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