Cerabyte is now ready to bring its technology to the United States. The German company believes it can solve the needs of power-hungry data centers with a “disruptive” data storage offering.
Cerabyte just announced the launch of its US-based operations from its newly established offices in Silicon Valley, California, and Boulder, Colorado. Founded by Christian Pflaum in 2022, the company developed a new storage technology that can seemingly retain massive amounts of data indefinitely. Modern data centers and storage operators are Cerabyte’s primary targets, as its technology can theoretically reduce the total cost of ownership by several orders of magnitude.
Cerabyte’s storage solution writes digital data on ceramic nanolayers 50-100 atoms thick, using fast lasers to etch QR code-like matrices. Ceramics are inorganic materials that can resist heat and corrosion that have existed for at least 26,000 years. Cerabyte now bets that its ceramic-based storage products can withstand the test of time and preserve data for at least 5,000 years or longer.
Once the data is recorded, the corresponding medium is safely stored, requiring zero energy to persist over time. Cerabyte highlights how 60 to 80 percent of all modern data is archived in “cold storage” devices on energy-inefficient HDDs. By 2025, the company estimates that archival/cold storage will amount to 4.5 to 6 zettabytes (one billion terabytes).
