CERN with storage platform see – Data. Seagate has signed a three-year partnership with CERN OPENLAB to develop Kinetic storage platform for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Founded in 2001, CERN OPENLAB allows the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) to use the computing centers around the world to store, distribute and analyze tens of petabytes (15 million gigabytes) of data generated annually by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).