The startup develops a data management system that minimizes the data-carbon footprint through low power consumption and hardware-embedded security. Its technology provides organizations with a sustainable solution for efficient data management while ensuring a long product life cycle and reduced environmental impact.
Funding
$230K raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Organizations face challenges in managing the exponential growth of data while minimizing costs, ensuring long-term data integrity, and reducing environmental impact due to high energy consumption and electronic waste from traditional data storage systems. Existing data storage solutions often lack the scalability, resilience, and energy efficiency required for long-term data retention and accessibility.
Solution
Swiss Vault provides sustainable data management solutions through its Vault File System (VFS) software and energy-efficient hardware. VFS is a software-defined storage product that runs on Linux or Unix systems, offering a highly resilient data archive with self-healing capabilities. The system abstracts individual disks into a giant pool that tolerates drive failures and automatically regenerates data. Swiss Vault's hardware achieves low size, weight, and power consumption, enabling organizations to scale up data storage while reducing maintenance costs, electronic waste, and carbon emissions. The combined hardware and software solution facilitates economical, resilient, and environmentally sustainable data management for long-term data preservation.
Target Audience
Swiss Vault targets organizations dealing with exponential data growth, including those in mobility, healthcare and genomics, telemetry, fintech, agtech, and media sectors, who require long-term, cost-effective, and easily retrievable data storage solutions.
Features
- Vault File System (VFS): Software-defined storage that runs on Linux or Unix systems
- Distributed storage solution: Abstracts each disk into one giant pool that tolerates drive failures
- Self-healing data: Handles multiple drive and node failures and fixes them in real-time
- Custom data compression: Intelligently handles the storage of data, optimizing data storage efficiency
- High data availability: Pools all available resources into one distributed file system
- Flexible tradeoffs between data robustness and parity data overhead
- Bespoke hardware solution: Offers between 2x and 6x lower power draw compared to mainstream solutions
- Metadata storage in P2P-distributed nodes: No master nodes to prevent node failure
- Automated identification and resolution of bit rot and failed disks
- Scalable by adding more disks for increased IO performance and hardware failure robustness
- Erasure coding for raw media efficiency
- Simplified deployment using a single YAML file for infrastructure description