To help turn its plans into reality and bring it closer to achieving the dream of 10,000TB capacity cartridges, Cerabyte has secured a strategic investment from Pure Storage, which is in turn developing high-capacity storage, with an eye on 1,200TB SSD modules.
Cerabyte aims to create a new level of accessible, persistent and sustainable data storage, extending from petabyte-scale to exabyte-scale data center racks. This persistent media technology can retain data for extremely long periods without consuming power.
Cerabyte’s ceramic-based data storage does not suffer from bit loss or silent corruption, which threaten data integrity over time. Instead, it provides an immutable record of the original data, which is required in an increasing number of use cases, especially in the AI era.
Towards the Yottabyte era
“Pure’s investment in Cerabyte and our joint partnership will enable us to offer customers sustainable, immutable data storage solutions that are revolutionizing the industry,” said John (Coz) Colgrove, Founder and Chief Visionary Officer of Pure Storage. “By revolutionizing the file storage market, we are paving the way for more durable and manageable long-term storage.”
We’ve written about Cerabyte before. The startup is working to solve the data storage problem by taking a cue from the ancient Egyptians’ practice of etching hieroglyphics into rock. Its much more modern solution involves using a femtosecond laser pulse to inscribe data in QR code-like patterns on ceramic, a material that can survive for over 5,000 years.
Christian Pflaum, CEO of Cerabyte, said: “As the industry heads into the yottabyte era, sustainable data storage, which eliminates the need for data migration and therefore reduces energy footprint and total cost of ownership, will be critical to taking advantage of the coming data tsunami. We are delighted to partner with Pure Storage to commercialize ceramic data storage and welcome John to our Board of Directors.”
