SubsidieMeestersCerabyte - a ceramic data storage system for global IT & cloud service provider
Cerabyte is a groundbreaking cold data storage technology using ceramic nanolayers, offering up to 99% energy savings and a lifespan without maintenance, poised to disrupt the €50 bn data storage market.
Projectdetails
Introduction
Our digital society generates enormous amounts of data at an ever-growing speed. Most of this data is cold, which means it never changes and is rarely retrieved. Storing this data consumes a lot of energy and requires hardware replacement every 3-5 years.
Cerabyte Technology
Therefore, we have developed Cerabyte, a novel cold data storage technology that stores data on ceramic nanolayers, enabling an unlimited timespan. Cerabyte outperforms mature technologies by leveraging ceramic nano-layers in combination with a massive parallel laser writing and reading mechanism.
Once data is written, no energy is needed to maintain the data for a long lifespan. This leads to savings of:
- Up to 99% of energy and CO2 emissions
- 95% of total cost of ownership (TCO)
Cerabyte will offer data storage systems that are fully compliant with current data center standards and easy to integrate for business customers into their data storage architecture. This will disrupt the data storage component market, which had a market size of €41.6 billion in 2022 and is projected to grow to €136.9 billion by 2030.
Value Chain and Validation
Cerabyte has established a new value chain together with international manufacturing partners and reached TRL6 with the launch of a fully functional demo system in October 2023, located in Aachen, Germany. The demo system has been recently validated by the US National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Rapid Expert Consultation on Archival Data Storage Technologies for the Intelligence Community in January 2024.
Patent and Market Impact
Our base patent for ceramic data carriers was granted in record time in the EU, USA, RUS, AUS, CAN, PRC, TW, SK, JP, and IN, covering 77% of global GDP—67.5% of smartphones and 49% of the global population. By combining our extensively patented technology with already existing robotic storage systems, we will be able to disrupt the €50 billion data storage infrastructure market.
Financiële details & Tijdlijn
Financiële details
| Subsidiebedrag | € 2.499.999 |
| Totale projectbegroting | € 2.499.999 |
Tijdlijn
| Startdatum | 1-12-2024 |
| Einddatum | 30-11-2026 |
| Subsidiejaar | 2024 |
Partners & Locaties
Projectpartners
- CERABYTE GMBHpenvoerder
Land(en)
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