Cerabyte Unveils Transformative Ceramic-Based Technology for Accessible Permanent Data Storage; Expands into the U.S.
15 Julio 2024 - 7:02AM
Business Wire
New Storage Tier Eliminates Data Migration,
Enables Sustainable Data Storage at Scale and Paves the Way to the
Yottabyte Era
Cerabyte, the pioneer of ceramic-based data storage solutions,
today announced its expansion into the United States with its
revolutionary accessible permanent data storage technology. The
technology uses cost-efficient flexible glass material and offers
fast write/read with high storage capacity. Cerabyte has
established offices in Silicon Valley, California, and Boulder,
Colorado.
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Cerabyte's solution can store data for virtually unlimited time
and reduce data center storage total cost of ownership (TCO) by
orders of magnitude. Due to its media longevity and rapid access,
Cerabyte also solves the challenges of long-term archival data
storage, enabling the implementation of fast-retrieval active
archive solutions and eliminating the need to periodically migrate
data from one media to another.
“Cerabyte’s emerging and disruptive technology is currently the
most exciting development in digital data storage,” said Fred
Moore, founder of Horison Information Strategies. “Cerabyte
addresses the long-standing challenge of filling 'the hole in the
storage hierarchy,' the requirement for a removable, random access,
air-gapped, energy efficient, mass storage solution. Reducing heavy
energy consumption now sits squarely in the bull’s-eye for most
data centers.”
The exponential growth of data poses serious challenges,
including escalating costs, increased complexity in data
management, potential security breaches, and difficulties in
quickly accessing or analyzing data. CO2 footprint and
sustainability are growing areas of concern.
“A data tsunami is on the horizon – and new, trail-blazing
approaches to data storage are needed to meet the looming
scalability and economic requirements. Cerabyte is prepared to
transform how data is stored and address the urgent cost and
sustainability demands of data centers,” said Christian Pflaum,
co-founder and CEO of Cerabyte. “Our vision is to achieve $1 per
petabyte per month, a cost reduction of 1000x within the next two
decades.”
“A primary objective for many data centers today is that ‘if
data isn’t used, it shouldn’t consume energy.’ A staggering 60 to
80 percent of all data is archival/cold, much of which is stored on
energy-inefficient HDDs. By 2025, archival/cold data will amount to
4.5 to 6 zettabytes, making it the largest storage classification
category. Cerabyte is poised to be the first storage solution to
address all requirements effectively,” added Moore.
New Storage Tier Brings Advantages to Data Centers
In the future, the vast majority of data will be stored in an
active archive. With Cerabyte, data centers will be able to utilize
high-performance data storage for computing and tier data
efficiently on accessible, permanent and sustainable ceramic-based
storage, deploying exabyte-scale data center racks. The persistent
and immutable media technology can hold data for extremely long
periods without the need for periodic refreshes, data migrations,
or fixity checks.
Due to its low access latency, Cerabyte is positioned to disrupt
archive storage. Physical bits are ablated into recyclable
ceramic-on-glass sheets, retaining data virtually forever with a
zero-power footprint and without bit rot, even under extreme
conditions.
- Semiconductor-like Scaling: Cerabyte’s technology
roadmap builds on amortized semiconductor fabrication tool
technology adapted for data storage use cases.
- Leverage Existing Ecosystem: Display glass, produced in
high volumes, is used for Cerabyte’s ceramic-on-glass sheets, which
are stacked inside LTO tape-sized cartridges leveraging existing
library automation.
- High-Performance Storage: The Cerabyte system encodes
binary data readable by a scanning microscope, employing
femtosecond lasers to create with each pulse millions of nanoscale
holes in a ceramic layer using a DMD (digital micromirror
device).
The Cerabyte solution is available as a data storage system
prototype and is primed for commercialization. It has demonstrated
end-to-end functionality in target environments. Interested
customers can experience Cerabyte’s prototype and technology
here.
Cerabyte was founded in 2022 by Christian Pflaum, Martin Kunze
and Alexander Pflaum. The company participated in the Intel Ignite
accelerator program and has raised $10 million in seed funding to
date.
Additional Resources:
- Cerabyte Press Kit: Images, Bios and Whitepapers
- Cerabyte Technology
- Furthur Market Research Whitepaper: The Sustainable
Preservation of Enterprise Data
- Horison Information Strategies Whitepapers:
- Cerabyte Market Positioning: Secondary Storage Demanding a New
Improved Solution
- Tiered Storage: Storage Optimization for the Zettabyte Era / A
New Storage Tier is Needed
About Cerabyte
Cerabyte is at the forefront of developing sustainable,
accessible, permanent data storage technology. Our innovative
ceramic-based technology utilizes advanced laser-matrix writing and
high-speed microscope reading technologies, forming the cornerstone
of a system capable of storing immense amounts of data virtually
forever with no data migration required and retrieval within
seconds. Our cost-effective, immutable data storage features
virtually unlimited media life while being fully recyclable,
helping to reduce environmental and carbon footprint. Leveraging
semiconductor manufacturing tool technology, we scale density and
speed and are uniquely positioned to pave the way to the yottabyte
era, leading the emergence of the industry’s newest storage tier.
Learn more at www.cerabyte.com
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