Industries · Life Sciences & Biopharma

From instrument to insight, without the wait.

Sequencers, cryo-EM, and imaging produce TB to PB per run — the fuel for genomics, drug discovery, and digital pathology. Until that data lands in HPC and the cloud, discovery is on hold. The zx Appliance handles genomics and biopharma data transfer at line rate — encrypted and checksummed end-to-end — and clocked 5.9× faster than aws-cli on a real 1.2 TiB cryo-EM transfer.

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Who we serveGenomicsCryo-EMDrug discoveryDigital pathologyBiopharma
The problem

The data outgrew the tools.

  • Genomics, cryo-EM, and digital pathology generate TB–PB per run — and biopharma is now among the fastest-growing sources of scientific data.
  • Moving it instrument → HPC → cloud is slow on legacy tools; typical commercial and freeware movers run roughly 10× slower than the zx Appliance.
  • Every transfer must be encrypted and verifiable for compliance — not bolted on afterward.
  • Research can't start until the data lands. Transfer time is time-to-discovery.
How Zettar solves it

Petascale movement built for regulated science.

Speed

Instrument → HPC → cloud at wire speed

line rate, scaling out with no software ceiling. Latency-insensitive too — validated over 5,000- and 12,375-mile paths — so pipelines start sooner no matter where the compute lives.

Trust

Encrypted & checksummed

Unconditional end-to-end checksums plus TLS on every transfer. Compliance-friendly integrity by default — the same approach that moved 1 PB for the DOE, encrypted and checksummed end-to-end.

Reach

Hybrid & multi-cloud reach

File and object movement across on-prem HPC, hybrid, and public cloud. Beats the typical 30–50% cloud-transfer penalty so you keep compute where it's cheapest.

Simplicity

Turnkey appliance

A validated, co-designed appliance your IT team racks and runs — no data-transfer specialists to hire, and far less engineering time than a DIY transfer stack.

Proof, not promises
"On a 1.2 TiB cryo-EM dataset moved from KEK to AWS N. Virginia — 10,851 km — the zx Appliance finished in about 40 minutes versus 235 minutes for aws-cli."
— KEK Cryo-EM transfer (Japan → AWS US-East)
"Zettar moved an actual petabyte over a 5,000-mile network loop in 29 hours, encrypted and checksummed, at 96% bandwidth utilization."
— SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory & ESnet, U.S. DOE Read the record → See the paper →

That run was capped at 80 Gbps to spare the shared network — on a full 100 Gbps link, it's a petabyte a day.

Proven withKEK — High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Japan
5.9×
faster than aws-cli — 1.2 TiB cryo-EM, KEK → AWS, 10,851 km
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FAQ

Common questions

FAQ

How fast can Zettar move genomics or cryo-EM data?

At line rate — it fills the bandwidth available between instrument, HPC, and cloud. In a real KEK cryo-EM transfer it ran 5.9× faster than aws-cli.

FAQ

Is the data secure and compliant in transit?

Every transfer is encrypted with TLS and protected by unconditional end-to-end checksums — integrity by default, not bolted on afterward.

FAQ

Can it move data from instrument to HPC to cloud?

Yes — across on-premises HPC, hybrid, and public cloud, in both file and object formats.

FAQ

Does latency to the cloud slow it down?

No — zx is latency-insensitive, proven over 5,000- and 12,375-mile transfers.

FAQ

What instruments and workloads does it support?

Sequencers, cryo-EM, and digital pathology and imaging — any pipeline producing TB to PB per run.

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Move data at the speed of discovery.

See how the zx Appliance moves your genomics and imaging data — securely, at scale.

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