Case Study: Danish Meteorological Institute achieves more sustainable data storage with IBM

IBM helped DMI store data more sustainably and cost-efficiently with IBM Storage solutions.

The Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) needed a modern storage system to handle rapidly growing weather and climate data while reducing energy use, lowering costs, and supporting hybrid cloud access. Working with IBM, DMI turned to IBM Storage solutions to replace its aging multi-vendor environment and better support public forecasting, climate research, and long-term archiving.

IBM implemented a unified storage platform built on IBM Storage Scale, with IBM Storage Archive and IBM Storage Protect for tape-based archiving and retrieval. The new system improved sustainability and data access, while reducing the cost per petabyte of data stored on tape and enabling DMI to manage 150 years of meteorological data more efficiently.

Danish Meteorological Institute

Ruth Mottram

Senior Climate Scientist