Ant Rowstron
Distinguished Engineer / Deputy Lab Director
About
I am a Distinguished Engineer and Deputy Lab Director at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, where I lead the Cloud Infrastructure Theme. For more details about more please visit my current homepage here.
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Microsoft Research Podcast
Optics for the cloud: storage in the zettabyte era with Dr. Ant Rowstron and Mark Russinovich
Episode 97 | November 6, 2019 - Remember when a hard drive that could hold a terabyte of data was a big deal? Well, we’re now in an era where peta-, exa- and even zetta-bytes are the bytes of the day, and it turns out it’s hard to fit that many zeroes on a hard drive. That’s where Dr. Ant Rowstron, Deputy Lab Director of Microsoft Research Cambridge, and Mark Russinovich, Chief Technical Officer of Azure, come in. Their respective teams are working on paradigm-breaking solutions to give us phenomenal storage power in an itty-bitty living space.