CATALOG To Be Showcased at IBM Think 2021

CATALOG CTO to highlight DNA Storage and Compute Capabilities to Business Leaders from Around the World

April 28, 2021 - BOSTON – CATALOG, world's first DNA-based platform for massive digital data storage and computation, will be showcased as a critical emerging technology at IBM Think on May 11 and 12, 2021.  

Think is the digital event experience where advances in world-changing technologies become real through real-world case studies, technical exploration, community engagement, and visionary thought leadership.

CATALOG addresses challenges facing data-intensive industries. According to a recent report, the amount of data created, captured, and replicated every year will grow to over 175 zettabytes by 2025, up from 33 zettabytes today. While the cost of traditional storage has been declining, the average enterprise storage system lifespan is less than five years, and storage density capability isn't keeping pace with the explosive data growth.
DNA has been perfected over 3 billion years of evolution for data storage and computation.  At Think, CATALOG CTO Dave Turek will detail to business leaders CATALOG's advantages over current media like HDD, SDD, and Tape, how CATALOG's approach of using pre-made synthetic DNA building blocks is 1000s of times faster and less expensive than others, and how CATALOG future proof approach compares to other emerging technologies like Microsoft Glass.  

"This endorsement from IBM legitimizes CATALOG's approach to DNA Storage and Compute over other offerings," said CATALOG CTO David Turek. "Our work with IBM CATALOG optimized the ligation process in a way that significantly reduces data encoding costs."

CATALOG's key market advantage is based on Shannon. Named in honor of the father of information theory, Claude Shannon, CATALOG has created the world's first commercially viable DNA storage and computation device. CATALOG's custom-developed DNA writer and data storage system, Shannon, uses technology similar to inkjet printers to convert the zeros and ones used to store binary data in traditional storage into a combination of pre-synthesized DNA molecules. This system can write at a speed of Mb/sec, over a trillion unique DNA molecules in a single run which is the equivalent of GB of data.

To attend Think 2021 Session 2025 - Making DNA Storage More Cost-Efficient

starting on May 11 please visit https://www.ibm.com/events/think/. There is no cost to register.  

About CATALOG

Founded in 2016 by MIT scientists, CATALOG is the first company to have developed a solution to make DNA data storage commercially viable. Humanity is generating more data than there is a means to store or compute using traditional technologies, and that growth is exploding exponentially. CATALOG's DNA data storage solution is more reliable, sustainable, and transferable than conventional data storage methods, and could fit the entirety of the world's data into a coat closet. The computational platform will extract value from previously unstorable data. The company is based in Boston. For more information about CATALOG, visit www.catalogdna.com.

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