300 meters below the ground, in a converted mineshaft in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, data is being stored on photosensitive film. Developed by data storage company Piql and mine operator ...

Indian data center operator Yotta will offer its clients long-term data storage in a partnership with Piql. Under the brand 'Yotta Preserve,' the companies will use piqlFilm, a proprietary film ...

Deep inside an abandoned mine on the Arctic island of Svalbard, some 650 miles (1,046 km) from the North Pole, a mysterious new library has opened its doors. It's called the Arctic World Archive, and ...

Malicious hacking, bit rot and data corruption; the challenges are immense when it comes to securing digital data. Then how can long-term access to our digital heritage be assured? Norwegian company ...

But good ideas never go away completely. A €20 million research project, supported by the EU and the Norwegian government, has Norway-based Piql develop a system for storing digital data on reels of ...

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Perhaps the most interesting part of Piql's design is that each reel of film contains human-readable instructions - including source code - for retrieving the digital data. The system is available ...

Deep inside an abandoned mine on the Arctic island of Svalbard, some 650 miles (1,046 km) from the North Pole, a mysterious new library has opened its doors. It’s called the Arctic World Archive, and ...