Life Sciences

Next generation gene sequencing and drug discovery technologies hold the promise of enabling major advances in biomedical research. Bioinformatics and cheminformatics techniques, which use biological and chemical information processing, accelerate the discovery of new compounds and sequences that are beneficial to society. These advanced techniques help laboratories quickly eliminate faulty compounds and reduce the costs of the overall discovery process.

Technology is also changing the way we share patient information and diagnose medical conditions. With medical records scattered across many different medical offices and hospitals, providers have a difficult time getting a complete picture of a patient’s health status. As more digital health information is made available online, providers can speed diagnoses, recommend treatment without conflicting with an existing medical condition, and reduce the likelihood of unnecessary medical tests.

Challenges

• Technological advances in biomedical research have exponentially increased the demand for storage. The architecture must be flexible enough to respond to changing demands from business units, yet be able to scale to the performance levels necessary to process a high volume of data requests.

• As the medical image knowledge base grows, so do the storage needs. It’s not unusual for a data store to double its capacity requirements every few months. Since most patient medical records are accessed on an irregular basis, providers prefer to archive them on more economical Tier-2 storage. More importantly, in order to reduce operating expenses, companies are looking to bring their cost per gigabyte of storage into the single digit range.

IBRIX Fusion is ideally suited for the demanding workloads that medical and pharmaceutical companies require. Its unsurpassed support of high transaction rates can open the I/O floodgates, allowing processors to be fully utilized. Its flexible architecture enables IT to easily build large repositories by adding capacity and components on demand without outages. Open and modular in nature, IBRIX Fusion can be scaled for any size installation to maximize capital investments and ensure on-time project completion.

 EMC, Dell, and IBRIX provided a single system that gives us the ability to enable discovery in a wide sphere of influence. No single system is going to be optimal for all scientific problems, but it is our belief that this system is meeting the vast majority of our users’ needs in a very efficient and very effective fashion.
Director, Center for Computational Research
University at Buffalo

• Increase performance up to 50 times
• Maximize processing utilization and storage hardware
• Create a scalable digital asset online archive at low, single-digit cost per gigabyte
• Simplify management while maximizing flexibility
• Scale storage capacity and performance as needs grow, without forklift upgrades and downtime