Meet us at Big Science Business Forum (BSBF 2026)
Connect with the Leil team at the Big Science Business Forum 2026.
Europe’s Big Science organisations – CERN, ESA, ESO, ESRF, ESS, European XFEL, FAIR, F4E, ILL and SKA – generate hundreds of petabytes to exabytes of research data every year. Storing it affordably, at scale has become mission-critical infrastructure.
BSBF is where that conversation happens. Now in its fourth edition, the forum brings 1,200+ delegates from over 500 organisations across 30 countries to Maastricht – connecting research infrastructures with the suppliers building the technology behind them, around procurement worth billions of euros a year.
This year, Leil joins the Estonian national pavilion, hosted by EIS (Enterprise Estonia), to show how HDD-Native™ storage brings hyperscale efficiency to the institutions that need it most.

Find us at the Estonian Pavilion
Leil is exhibiting as part of the Estonian delegation with EIS (Enterprise Estonia), alongside a group of Estonian deep-tech companies. Come find us under the Estonian flag to see how Leil OS and Leil FS deliver hyperscale-grade storage economics on-premises – purpose-built for the high-capacity, cost-sensitive, sovereignty-conscious world of European research infrastructure.
We built our HDD-Native™ architecture to speak the native language of the largest drives on the planet, so research institutions can scale from pilot to production without re-architecting – and without locking themselves into proprietary hardware.
Big Science teams are talking to Leil:
- Cost efficiency – HDD-native architecture delivers 3–5× better price-per-terabyte versus traditional proprietary SAN/NAS systems, critical for institutions operating on public budgets.
- No vendor lock-in – open standards and auditable, interoperable software, as public research procurement requires.
- European by origin – an EU-based company aligned with data sovereignty, GDPR, and preference for EU suppliers in public procurement.
- Scale without limits – one architecture that scales from petabytes to exabytes, fitting both a first proof-of-concept and full production deployment.
Whether you are a procurement officer, a technical decision-maker, or a fellow supplier, stop by to discuss HDD-Native architecture, SMR adoption strategies, and how open, European storage can absorb the data volumes your instruments produce.



