Cerabyte’s technology can help address the challenges around long-term storage of data on media that is not accessed often.
Cerabyte’s ceramic-based data storage, which addresses the limitations of cold storage, is proving valuable to Pure. This is evidenced by the company’s “strategic investment” in the startup, although details are not exactly specified. Cerabyte, founded in 2022, has now produced a working prototype. John (Coz) Colgrove, Founder and Chief Visionary Officer of Pure Storage, is joining Cerabyte’s board of directors to demonstrate the commitment.
Storing data for a long time
Cerabyte wants to build technology to store all data virtually forever, preserving today’s digital records for future use. Ceramic storage technology has the potential to change this. With traditional storage media, there are risks associated with cold storage, such as bit rot (the decay of data) or silent corruption (undetected corruption of data).
Ceramic-based storage has none of these drawbacks that threaten the long-term integrity of data. This is because it relies on an immutable record of the original data. According to Pure Storage, this technology can enable a new class of accessible, permanent and durable storage. This could expand data center rack capacity from petabyte to exabyte scale. In addition, data in Cerabyte-based storage can be stored for extremely long periods of time without consuming power.
“Pure’s investment in Cerabyte and joint partnership will allow us to offer our customers sustainable and immutable data storage solutions that are revolutionizing the industry,” said Colgrove. “By disrupting the archival storage market, we are paving the way for longer lasting and easier to manage long-term storage.”