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The Ocient Hyperscale Data Warehouse

To deliver next-generation data analytics, Ocient completely reimagined data warehouse design to deliver real-time analysis of complex, hyperscale datasets.

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Ocient is uniquely designed for maximum performance and flexibility with always-on analytics, maximizing your hardware, cloud, or data warehouse as a service spend. You get predictable, lower costs (and absolutely zero headaches).

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Ocient offers the only solutions development approach that enables customers to try a production-ready solution tailored to their business requirements before investing capital and resources.

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Tap into the deep experience of the Ocient Management Services team to set up, manage, and monitor your Ocient solution.

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About Ocient

In 2016 our team of industry veterans began building a hyperscale data warehouse to tackle large, complex workloads.

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Our goal at Ocient is to minimize the energy demands and carbon footprint from analyzing large-scale data sets that require continuous, compute-intensive processing.

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Published April 25, 2025

Meeting the Challenges of Modern Big Data

Why SSDs ultimately produce less carbon than HDDs across their lifetimes

FInd Out What Makes Solid-State Drives the Sustainable Choice for Enterprises

Are you…

  • Evaluating efficient storage solutions?
  • Looking to reduce your organization’s carbon footprint?
  • Ready to optimize your infrastructure for the modern data environment?

You’ve come to the right place! Ocient and Solidigm have joined forces to debunk outdated claims around SSD carbon footprints. Contrary to recent studies focused only on consumer applications, our latest paper reveals why SSDs are the superior solution for large-scale enterprise operations, including big data analytics and AI. The paper examines:

  • The Outdated Assumptions Around SSDs’ Carbon Footprint
  • Why SSDs Beat HDDs for Enterprise Applications
  • Operational Efficiency & Sustainability Benefits of Choosing SSDs

Read the paper to discover how SSDs not only maximize performance but also minimize environmental impact when compared to traditional HDDs.