Ivy League university selects Red Hat Storage Software Appliance for
highly available and scalable storage for data-intensive research
projects including DNA sequencing
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that the Cornell University Institute for
Biotechnology and Life Science Technologies is using Red Hat Storage,
formally Gluster, technology to manage data-intensive research projects.
With Red Hat Storage Software Appliance, the department is experiencing
cost-effective, highly available and scalable storage, and using it for
such projects as DNA sequencing. It has delivered flexibility and
reliability that has allowed the Institute to achieve the growth needed
to continue its research programs, while increasing researcher
productivity due to the high availability of the data.
"The Institute for Biotechnology and Life Science Technologies brings
together a diverse group of university scientists conducting research in
biology and the physical, engineering and computational sciences, which
produces extremely large amounts of data," said Steven Lee, Cornell
Center for Advanced Computing systems consultant.
Producing over 15 to 20 terabytes of storage a month, the Institute
required a solution to provide elastic scaling capabilities while being
highly available and capable of handling large amounts of data output at
any given time. Prior to Red Hat Storage, the Institute's standard file
systems capped at 8 and 16 terabytes per node, which required
significant work-arounds; it needed a storage solution that would
facilitate access to all data in every node. Therefore, a global
namespace was a necessity. Additionally, as a software-only solution,
Red Hat Storage quickly added value to Cornell's existing infrastructure.
"The idea of a scale-out storage solution was something we'd always been
interested in, but never could implement due to cost," said James VanEe,
IT director of Cornell's Institute for Biotechnology and Life Science
Technologies. "With Red Hat Storage we are able to avoid significant
costs with a cost-efficient software solution, while keeping our
infrastructure in place. It enables us to scale easily and affordably
without affecting our system's performance. One of my main goals as IT
director is to create an environment where new technologies can be
quickly adopted. Red Hat Storage helps us stay ahead of the curve and is
flexible enough to fit in with new technologies."
With Red Hat Storage Software Appliance, the Cornell Institute for
Biotechnology and Life Science Technologies was able to lay the
technology on its already existing disks, avoiding the potential high
cost of deploying additional servers and storage hardware. With the
elastic scaling capabilities provided by Red Hat Storage, the Institute
removed the constraint and pain point of trying to manage unstructured
data.
"Cornell was faced with a huge challenge; they needed high availability
and scalability without using a large portion of the IT budget," said
Ranga Rangachari, general manager, Storage at Red Hat. "Red Hat Storage
delivers the access their researchers need for data availability and the
scalability to accommodate data growth at a cost that meets business
needs."
Red Hat Storage Software Appliance lets enterprises deploy storage the
same way they deploy computing today—as a virtualized, commoditized and
scale-on-demand pool, improving storage economics. Combined with the
customer's choice of commodity computing and storage resources, Red Hat
Storage can scale-out to petabytes of capacity and GB/s of throughput at
a lower cost than proprietary systems. Red Hat Storage offers high
availability with n-way replication both within and between public and
private datacenters. Red Hat Storage Software Appliance is deployable
both on-premise (as a virtual appliance or bare-metal software
appliance) and in public clouds such as Amazon Web Services. Red Hat
Storage is the primary author and maintainer of the open source
GlusterFS software.
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