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Starfish Storage Named “Data Solution of the Year for Education” in 6th Annual Data Breakthrough Awards Program
April 3, 2025
Starfish Storage earns “Data Solution of the Year for Education,” recognized for empowering research institutions with metadata-driven automation, cost control, and user-level data visibility. Harvard FAS alone saves millions annually by optimizing storage across hundreds of labs.
Starfish Storage Celebrates a Decade of Leadership in Metadata-Driven Unstructured Data Management
March 13, 2024
Starfish Storage, the leader in metadata-driven unstructured data management, proudly celebrates its 10-year anniversary. Coinciding with this milestone, the company also announces it now manages well over an exabyte of capacity across its client base. This includes eight of the world’s top 10 pharmaceutical firms, seven of the eight Ivy League universities, and Department of Energy supercomputing sites.
In the Media
Data catalogs for unstructured data offer a new twist on an old theme
May 29, 2025
Uncover the value buried in billions of files. Starfish’s unstructured data catalog unlocks AI readiness, eliminates storage blind spots, and empowers users across your enterprise. Discover how it works.
Inside the Chargeback System That Made Harvard’s Storage Sustainable
May 5, 2025
By charging labs for storage use, Harvard’s Research Computing team slashed hoarding, optimized data management, and built a sustainable model without throttling science.
Starfish Helps Tame the Wild West of Massive Unstructured Data
April 22, 2024
“What data do you have? And can I access it?” Those may seem like simple questions for any data-driven enterprise. But when you have billions of files spread across petabytes of storage on a parallel file system, they actually become very difficult questions to answer.
The Gruesome Job of Managing Petabytes of Scientific Data
March 26, 2024
“Oh, wow, the IT department charges us $11,000 a month for data storage. Why don’t we put some data on cheaper storage? Mark, why don’t you look into that?” the principal investigator asks the postdoc who just joined the team.
Bio-IT World Community Names Five New ‘Best of Show’ Products
May 19, 2023
The Best of Show Awards program at Bio-IT World each year recognizes innovative product solutions to important problems facing the Life Sciences industry.
Managing unstructured data to boost performance, lower costs
November 20, 2020
Unstructured data is the fastest growing data around. It’s increasing at a compound annual growth rate of 61%, according to IDC, and will account for 80% of worldwide data by 2025.
Transitioning from Big Data to Discovery: Data Management as a Keystone Analytics Strategy
April 9, 2018
The promise and hype of Big Data a few years ago, led to a transformation in how research was done across many scientific disciplines.