The Starfish Deep Dive
Surfacing insights on unstructured data management, storage optimization, and metadata mastery
Chapter Two in a Series: Transforming the Research Data Management Culture at Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences Research Computing
October 3, 2025
Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences Research Computing is transforming research data management with Starfish, offering researchers powerful dashboards for data insight while enabling leadership to track storage trends, automate archiving, and plan future innovations.
Chapter One in a Series: How Harvard Faculty of Arts and Science Research Computing and Starfish built an innovative chargeback system that is flattening storage growth and recovering $2M a year in annual storage costs
October 1, 2025
The story of how Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences Research Computing partnered with Starfish Storage to launch a chargeback program that recovers $2M annually, funds a full-time data manager, curbs storage growth, and helps researchers control their data storage costs.
Customer Spotlight: Starfish Storage makes data easier to find, store and protect for Clemson University’s Research Computing and Data Infrastructure team
September 27, 2025
Clemson Research Computing and Data Infrastructure team shares how they use Starfish to shrink the backup window from a week to less than 24 hours, easily find sensitive files, and empower researchers.
How Starfish Storage delivers daily wins in data management to the University of Utah’s Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute
September 23, 2025
The University of Utah’s Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute uses Starfish Storage every day to manage a massive research data set, resolve hidden data issues and migrate data without interrupting researchers.
Breaking File System Scanning Barriers at Scale: How Starfish and WEKA Deliver Record-Setting Metadata Performance
September 15, 2025
Starfish and WEKA achieved a record-setting 903,668 LSTAT ops/sec, enabling full scans of 3+PB per hour with more records to come! This level of game-changing performance offers better data management for large scale environments, quicker anomaly detection, faster workflows, and better RPO’s.
Starfish Storage automates dozens of scientific instrument workflows for a leading research hospital
September 12, 2025
When researcher time was being eroded by having to manually process dozens of instrument data workflows, Starfish Storage stepped in and set researchers free.