DNA Data Storage "End-to-End" System Concept

As data growth continues to explode, the need for secure, simple to manage, and cost-effective data archiving and backup solutions has become increasingly pressing. In response, IBM is proud to announce the launch of IBM S3 Deep Archive, a game-changing on-premises cloud solution that leverages S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval storage classes to provide up to 27PB of data archiving at up to 80% savings than comparable cloud storage.

This innovative solution eliminates the need for tape-specific skills, offering a low-cost, on premise-controlled, and highly secure storage solution for cold data. With an industry standard S3 command set, no additional tape software, data encryption at-rest, and air gap storage, IBM S3 Deep Archive provides a seamless and integrated archiving experience.

Join us to learn more about this exciting new solution, its use cases, and how it can help organizations reduce their total cost of ownership, energy consumption, and carbon footprint while providing fast and reliable access to archived data.

Jason Peipelman

UX Architect and Design Lead

IBM

Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA), with its ultra-high storage density and long durability, is a promising long-term archival storage medium and is attracting much attention today. A DNA storage system encodes and stores digital data with synthetic DNA sequences and decodes DNA sequences back to digital data via sequencing. Many encoding schemes have been proposed to enlarge DNA storage capacity by increasing DNA encoding density. However, only increasing encoding density is insufficient because enhancing DNA storage capacity is a multifaceted problem. This talk will introduce all factors affecting random-access based DNA storage capacity under current technologies and systematically investigate the practical DNA storage capacity with several popular encoding schemes. The investigation result shows the collision between primers and DNA payload sequences is a major factor limiting DNA storage capacity.

Based on this discovery, we will introduce our proposed new encoding scheme called Collision Aware Code (CAC) to trade some encoding density for the reduction of primer-payload collisions. Compared with the best result among the five existing encoding schemes, CAC can extricate 120\% more primers from collisions and increase the DNA tube capacity from 211.96 GB to 295.11 GB. Besides, we will also demonstrate CAC's recoverability from DNA storage errors. The result shows CAC is comparable to those of existing encoding schemes.

Bingzhe Li

Distinguished Engineer

Dell Technologies

Yixun Wei

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

David Du

Professor

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Data storage capacity is projected to reach 2.5 Yottabytes by 2050. Historically, the amount of installed data storage has increased by three orders of magnitude approximately every 30 years: from exceeding 1 Exabyte in 1980 to 1 Zettabyte in 2012, and now to exceed 1 Yottabyte anticipated in the mid-2040s. To meet the demand within the next decade, data storage supply must grow over 100-fold—not only in capacity but also in cost efficiency, performance, and media longevity. Furthermore, energy efficiency must improve even more significantly.

With current storage technologies, such as HDDs, SSDs, and tape, the scaling curves are flattening in terms of storage density and cost efficiency, making it implausible to achieve the necessary improvements with existing solutions. There is an urgent need for a new, green, and scalable technology to meet these requirements. At the same time, storage system architectures have to evolve to harness capacity growth. This also includes rethinking how to organize data, file systems, and interface technologies.

Ceramic Data Storage represents this next-generation solution: a durable, sustainable, and high-performing data storage technology capable of achieving high density. By leveraging existing technologies and materials, Cerabyte can be deployed in the foreseeable future to provide the desperately needed long-term data storage capacity, starting the journey to unlock the full potential of this emerging technology.

Sebastian Kirsch

Managing Director, Technology

Cerabyte

The Global Storage market is growing at a CAGR of 17.8% (Ref: Fortune Business Insights). While current storage technologies are still satisfying the current capacity needs, the explosive growth in the digitization of information has warranted research and analysis into new futuristic media, such as molecular/DNA storage, that can scale to large capacity with much lower carbon impact.

In this session, we will present a concept of an end-to-end DNA Data Storage System that can function independently, is integrated with automation, and can be deployed at scale. We will describe a) the building blocks of a DNA Data Storage System; b) the abstract interface model between the functional blocks in an end-to-end system c) selecting and configuring DNA equipment blocks (codec, write, store, retrieve, read) when designing such an end-to-end system; and d) the power, liquid plumbing, waste management and other resources/support required by such a system. The main takeaway of this session is to describe a conceptual storage system that can be built using the DNA equipment blocks and how interoperability could be achieved for its real life application.

Shruti Sethi

Senior PM

Microsoft

Olivier Lauvray

CTO

Biomemory