DNA lacks many key attributes found in other traditional storage media types including locality and addressability. The Rosetta Stone workgroup is aiming to solve the issue of enabling archive readers to understand key metadata about the archive and position them to be able to consume its contents. This session will provide an overview of where the Rosetta Stone workgroup is in the process of creating a recommended approach for this issue.

Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) as a storage medium with high density and long-term preservation properties can satisfy the requirement of archival storage for rapidly increased digital volume. The read and write processes of DNA storage are error-prone. Images widely used in social media have the properties of fault tolerance which are well fitted to the DNA storage.

A new error correction code for DNA data storage is presented. The code takes advantage of the information about the noise in DNA data channel to clean up errors and erasure, that's why it is called DNA Noise Aware Errors Erasures Cleaner (DNAe2c). By modeling errors and erasures source with different state-of-the-art distributions and real data, we see an improvement of 10x over Reed Solomon codes requiring less than 20% overhead, making DNAe2c a promising candidate to accelerate DNA data storage adoption.

Synthetic DNA-based data storage has been on the rise as a candidate for Data Storage due to its longer shelf life and higher data density. This technology is expected to tackle the ever-increasing demand for cold storage and reduce energy consumption of data-centers to preserve information over long periods of time. In 2021, Lenovo and IPT joined the race towards DNA synthesis for data storage application. In regards to the traditional chemical method, the established “base-by-base” synthesis promises the highest information density on short length DNA strands.

There are several well-known advantages of using synthetic DNA for cold-data storage, such as higher density, reduced energy consumption, and durability compared with the standard storage mediums used for the same purpose. The enablement of this technology in the market involves the development of cost-effective DNA synthesizers that can write the data at an appropriate throughput speed and a CODEC able to handle data from different synthesis and sequencing technologies.

Users of DNA as a digital data storage medium must have confidence that they can reliably recover their stored data, and to understand the competing capabilities and claims of codecs, readers, writers, and container systems as a multi-vendor DNA data storage ecosystem emerges.

The long-term retention and backup requirements of many organizations continue to grow as their data estate grows. The long-term preservation market provides an opportunity for a higher durability service to store copies of high value digital assets in as many places, with as many types of media as possible, to eliminate the chance of data loss. The ability to store large volumes of such “long-term preservation” data, largely depends on enabling storage technologies that are lowest cost than any storage technology that exists today, such that cost to store data is near zero.

The demand for data storage continues to grow exponentially with the overall data storage temperature cooling down with most data becoming cold after one month and subsequently infrequently accessed. Given the evolving storage pyramid and the growth of the overall storage ecosystem, especially cold storage, demand for significant capacity, longevity and sustainability scaling is increasing.

Cold data holds significant value for regulatory compliance, audits, legal necessities, and disaster recovery, even though it's not frequently accessed. Archiving is a strategic approach that enables businesses to manage this data efficiently, balancing cost, scalability, and performance. This presentation will highlight key features of leading cloud-based archival systems like AWS S3/Glacier, Azure Archive Storage, Google Cloud Storage, etc. We’ll delve into asynchronous data access on archives and the role of staging data in this process.

The demand for data storage continues to grow exponentially with the overall data storage temperature cooling down with most data becoming cold after one month and subsequently infrequently accessed. Given the evolving storage pyramid and the growth of the overall storage ecosystem, especially cold storage, demand for significant capacity, longevity and sustainability scaling is increasing.