Cerabyte is expanding to bring accessible persistent storage technology to the United States.
Cerabyte has announced its expansion into the US, introducing accessible, permanent data storage technology. This innovative technology utilizes a cost-effective, flexible glass material to deliver fast write/read speeds and large storage capacity. Headquartered in Germany, the company has offices in Silicon Valley, California, and Boulder, Colorado.
Cerabyte solutions allow data to be stored for a virtually unlimited period of time, dramatically reducing the total cost of ownership for data center storage. With long media life and fast access, Cerabyte addresses the challenges of long-term archival data retention and makes it easy to implement active archive solutions for fast retrieval, eliminating the need for regular data migration from one media to another.
Fred Moore, founder of consulting firm Horison Information Strategies, hailed Cerabyte’s technology as a groundbreaking development in digital data storage. He highlighted how Cerabyte addresses a critical need for removable, randomly accessible, air-gapped, energy-efficient, high-capacity storage solutions that are becoming increasingly important for data centers looking to reduce their bulk energy consumption.
Addressing cold data costs and concerns
The exponential growth of data brings with it numerous challenges: rising costs, complex data management, potential security breaches, and difficulty quickly accessing and analyzing data. These challenges are further compounded by growing concerns about carbon emissions and sustainability.
Cerabyte co-founder and CEO Christian Pflaum warned of an impending “data tsunami” and stressed the need for new, innovative approaches to data storage to meet scalable and economical demands. He said Cerabyte aims to revolutionize data storage and address urgent cost and sustainability requirements for data centers. Pflaum outlined the company’s vision to achieve $1 per petabyte per month within the next 20 years, which would mean a thousand-fold reduction in costs.
New Storage Tier Brings Benefits to Data Centers
In the future, most data will be stored in active archives. Cerabyte’s technology enables data centers to leverage high performance data storage for computing and efficiently tier data to accessible, persistent and sustainable ceramic-based storage, supporting exabyte-scale data center racks. Cerabyte’s persistent and immutable media technology allows data to be retained for long periods of time without the need for periodic updates, migrations or durability checks.
Cerabyte is positioned to revolutionize the archival storage market with low access latency: physical bits are ablated into ceramic on recyclable sheets of glass, preserving data virtually forever with zero power and no bit degradation, even under extreme conditions.
Key features of Cerabyte include:
Semiconductor-like scaling: Cerabyte’s technology roadmap leverages amortized semiconductor manufacturing tools tailored for data storage use cases. Leverages existing ecosystem: Cerabyte’s ceramic-on-glass sheets, stacked within an LTO tape-sized cartridge, leverage existing library automation to take advantage of high-capacity display glass. High-performance storage: Cerabyte encodes binary data that can be read by a scanning microscope, using a femtosecond laser to create millions of nanoscale holes in the ceramic layer with each pulse via a digital micromirror device (DMD).
The Cerabyte solution is currently being offered as a prototype, demonstrating end-to-end functionality in target environments and is ready for commercial deployment.
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