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Fundamentals: What is Cloud-Optimized Scientific Data?

April 17, 2025

Why naively lifting scientific data to the cloud falls flat. Scientific formats predate the cloud There are exabytes of scientific...

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Tom Nicholas

Tom Nicholas

Forward Engineer

Announcing Flux: The API Layer for Geospatial Data Delivery

April 15, 2025

TLDR Earthmover’s new product–Flux–adds a whole new layer to our platform. Flux allows you to serve geospatial data from Arraylake...

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Ryan Abernathey

Ryan Abernathey

Co-Founder and CEO

Exploring Icechunk scalability: untangling S3’s prefix story

April 10, 2025

We at Earthmover recently released the Icechunk tensor storage engine, a novel cloud-optimized storage format and library for large-scale array data. Built...

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Sebastian Galkin

Sebastian Galkin

Staff Engineer

Fundamentals: Tensors vs. Tables

April 3, 2025

At Earthmover, we are building the cloud platform for multidimensional array data (a.k.a. tensors). While the need for such a...

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Ryan Abernathey

Ryan Abernathey

Co-Founder and CEO

Solving NASA’s Cloud Data Dilemma: How Icechunk Revolutionizes Earth Data Access

March 27, 2025 | 6 min read

Summary NASA has been migrating over 100 petabytes of data from on prem systems to the cloud for the last...

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Ryan Abernathey

Ryan Abernathey

Co-Founder and CEO

How Our Customers Use NOAA Data

March 17, 2025 | 6 min read

NOAA is under threat The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is one of the world’s leading scientific agencies....

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Ryan Abernathey

Ryan Abernathey

Co-Founder and CEO

Accelerating Xarray with Zarr-Python 3

February 20, 2025

zarr-python’s performance paradox Last month, we released Zarr-Python 3.0 - a ground-up rewrite of the library (read more about it...

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Davis Bennet

Davis Bennet

Open Source Engineer

Zarr-Python 3 is here!

January 9, 2025 | 5 min read

Note: This post was originally published on the Zarr developer blog. After more than a year of development, we’re thrilled to...

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Joe Hamman

Joe Hamman

Co-founder and CTO