Webinar Recap: Accelerating Innovation in Life Sciences with High-Performance Storage

In our recent webinar, we explored the important role centralized scale-out storage plays in driving innovation within the life sciences sector. Here’s a detailed recap for those who couldn’t attend:

Storage Challenges in Life Sciences:

• Data Growth: Advanced instruments like high-resolution imaging devices and rapid genome sequencers are creating data at a fast pace, needing better storage capacity and performance.
• Machine Learning: Changing workload patterns need more training data for good results, stressing the need for storage systems to keep up, especially with the addition of new GPUs.
• Data Silos: Different departments having their own storage solutions leads to data sharing hurdles, wasted resources, and possible data security concerns.

Why Centralized Storage?

Centralized storage acts as a key solution in this scenario. By bringing data into a single system, it makes data retrieval and sharing easier, supporting collaborative efforts, hence speeding up the innovation process. A key feature of centralized storage is its scalability. As data needs grow, the centralized storage system can be easily scaled up to meet the demands without losing performance.

Case Studies:

• OHSU Case Study: OHSU faced challenges with their old NFS appliance becoming a failure point. Moving to Quobyte helped solve scalability and performance issues, especially during high-demand situations, with a mix of flash and HDD ensuring high performance and cost-effective storage, with no downtime even during maintenance.
• HudsonAlpha Case Study: HudsonAlpha had scalability problems with their previous storage system. Quobyte’s solution fixed these issues, delivering scalable performance and capacity, solving performance bottlenecks, and allowing a mix of flash and HDD for cost-effective storage. Real-time analytics provided valuable insights into workload and performance needs on the cluster.

Quobyte’s Innovative Solution:

Quobyte is a distributed parallel file system, turning different servers and disks into a unified, reliable storage system. This is particularly helpful for managing diverse data types efficiently, be it numerous small files or larger data blocks.

Security at its Core:

In a time where data breaches are common, strong security is very important. Quobyte’s solution has strong security features, such as the policy engine, ensuring data safety and access only to authorized people.

Unique Features of Quobyte:

Quobyte utilizes a single namespace across all operating systems and interfaces for easy data sharing. Quobyte’s scalability and easy installation were presented as answers to common problems in life sciences data management, with its linear scaling allowing for growth with demand and its steady nature assuring 24/7 uptime, even during maintenance periods.

Getting Started with Quobyte:

Moving to a more efficient storage solution is made easy with Quobyte. Talk with our engineers for a personalized demo, install Quobyte on your servers, or choose a one-click deployment on Google Cloud. A free edition is also available for download, inviting storage admins to experience the benefits of Quobyte’s high-performance storage solution firsthand.

In conclusion, our webinar stressed the importance of moving from traditional storage systems to a more centralized, efficient model. This shift not only simplifies data management but also greatly helps in promoting a collaborative culture, thereby accelerating innovation in life sciences.

Watch the replay: https://youtu.be/gV8ORjdkLnU

Originally posted on Quobyte’s blog on December 10, 2023.