Cerabyte is developing ceramic-on-glass storage designed for long-term, power-free data retention, aiming to reduce media replacement and data migration while aligning with practical adoption alongside conventional storage infrastructures.

Cerabyte announced successful S3 integration testing of its ceramic data storage in collaboration with CERN openlab, supported by the European Innovation Council’s EIC Accelerator program.

Christian Pflaum, Cerabyte CEO, says the tests show ceramic storage can work with familiar S3 tools and workflows, bringing permanent, immutable storage closer to widespread use beyond science.

Cerabyte envisions scalable storage using semiconductor manufacturing capabilities, aiming for a yottabyte-era tier with recyclable, low-noise media and rapid retrieval.

CERN emphasizes the importance of long-term preservation for vast scientific data and notes ceramic storage could benefit diverse fields needing durable, affordable storage for decades.

Testing demonstrates compatibility with standard S3 object-storage workflows, enabling write, store, and retrieval within existing infrastructure without changing workflows.

The broader mission is to provide permanent data storage that outlasts the systems that create it, potentially enabling a durable storage tier in the data landscape.