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Life Sciences and Medical Research Turn to Qumulo for Modern Scale-Out File Storage
SEATTLE, WA - May 23, 2017 - Qumulo, the leader in modern scale-out storage, today announced that leading life sciences and medical research institutions are choosing Qumulo to accelerate their data-intensive workflows, including cancer and infectious disease research, genomics, bioinformatics, proteomics, microscopy and big data. Johns Hopkins Genomics (including the NIH CIDR Program at The Johns Hopkins University), the Center for Infectious Disease Research, Georgia Cancer Center at Augusta University, Channing Division of Network Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Progenity, Inc., and DarwinHealth, Inc. have joined the rapidly growing number of customers turning to Qumulo to speed discovery of new medical breakthroughs.
Workflows in life sciences are characterized by massive volumes of machine-generated file data pipelined into downstream processes for analysis, said Peter Godman, co-founder and CTO of Qumulo. The rapid growth of file-based storage and processing requirements compounded by limited IT resources has created a scalability crisis for life sciences and medical research organizations. Efficient, high-performance processing of file-based data is at the heart of innovation and discovery in life sciences - something legacy file storage cannot provide. Qumulo has become the clear answer for data-intensive life sciences workflows.
Qumulo accelerates data-intensive workflows in life science and medical research including cancer and infectious disease research and microscopy. Analysis of tissue and cancer tumor studies generates millions to billions of small files, and the expanding bio-repository file data requirements are outgrowing the capacity of legacy storage. Qumulos modern scale-out storage provides researchers with faster analysis times and IT staff with real-time visibility and control at scale. The high performing, cost-effective storage platform allows for a single file system to be shared across groups to prevent long wait times previously associated with sharing large data sets among groups. Qumulo is the modern replacement for legacy scale-out storage architectures that cannot keep up with modern data requirements.
Ron Hood, director of IT at the Center for Infectious Disease Research said, Qumulo Cores modern architecture is built for the future and thats what closed the deal for us. We didnt want to spend our budget on legacy scale-out storage systems that are obsolete or will be in two to three years. Qumulo supports our needs today and well into the future, so that we can achieve faster times to analysis for our most critical research.
Microscopy systems often generate image data sets as large as 1TB per experiment. Those images are stored and accessed for processing and analysis from client computers running operating systems such as Windows, macOS and Linux. The sequencing data is a widely varied collection of files ranging in size from a few kilobytes, often numbering in the millions to billions, up to large image files that can be 50 GB each. Qumulo is the ideal solution for this workload, providing high scalability, high performance, fast access to files across the entire range for processing and analysis, storage of billions of files and support for mixed file workloads.
Qumulo Core was designed from the ground up for the new era of multi-petabyte data scale on premises and in the cloud. Qumulo Core stores tens of billions of files with scalable throughput and is the only product that provides real-time visibility and control for file systems at petabyte scale. Storage administrators and life sciences researchers can instantly see usage, activity and throughput at any level of the unified directory structure, no matter how many files in the file system, allowing them to pinpoint problems and effectively manage how storage is used by analysis pipelines. In addition, a Qumulo Core storage cluster can be installed and deployed in minutes without specialized IT expertise.
Qumulo's publicly announced life sciences customers include: Carnegie Institution for Science, CID Research, Channing Division of Network Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, DarwinHealth, Inc., Georgia Cancer Center at Augusta University, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at University of Washington, Johns Hopkins Genomics at The Johns Hopkins University, Progenity, Inc., UConn Health, University of Utah Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute.
Connect with Qumulo at Bio-IT World
Qumulo will be featured in booth #333 at Bio-IT World, taking place May 23-25 in Boston. The company will sponsor, exhibit, and demonstrate the power of Qumulo Core for life sciences workflows. In addition, Peter Godman, the companys co-founder and CTO, will present on Kickstarting Breakthroughs in Life Sciences with Intelligent, Next-Generation Scale-Out Storage on Thursday, May 25 at 11:40am ET.
To schedule one-on-one meetings with Qumulo representatives at Bio-IT World, send an email to info@qumulo.com or schedule online here.
Helpful Links
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● Life Sciences Solution Overview
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About Qumulo
Qumulo enables enterprises to manage and store billions of digital assets with real-time visibility and control built directly into the file system. Going past the design limitations of legacy NAS, Qumulo Core is modern scale-out storage for the new era of multi-petabyte data footprints on premises and in the cloud. It is used by the leaders of data-intensive industries. Founded in 2012 by the inventors of scale-out NAS, Qumulo has attracted a world-class team of innovators, investors and partners. For more information, visit www.qumulo.com.
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