CLIMB Project Selects Red Hat Ceph Storage to Achieve Their Storage Needs to Support Medical Breakthroughs
Red Hat Ceph Storage chosen to achieve large-scale bioinformatics
data needs of United Kingdom-based university consortium based on
ability to provide necessary object storage capacity
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that the Cloud Infrastructure for Microbial
Bioinformatics (CLIMB) has selected and implemented Red Hat Ceph Storage
for their large-scale extensive research needs. Red Hat Ceph Storage
offers a block and object storage platform capable of scaling to meet
the demands of researchers who are sequencing large amounts of data and
seeking to collaborate more efficiently.
A collaborative medical research project involving University of
Warwick, Swansea University, Cardiff University, and the University of
Birmingham, CLIMB aims to provide free cloud-based compute, storage, and
analysis tools for academic microbiologists in the U.K. CLIMB features a
large and geographically dispersed community of researchers contributing
to the initiative. That community needed a shared IT infrastructure to
facilitate collaboration, support new medical breakthroughs, and better
manage data. The solution had to be easy to use, able to absorb hundreds
of terabytes of data, and scalable on demand to petabytes.
Red Hat Ceph Storage provides CLIMB with object storage that is capable
of meeting the large-scale storage requirements needed to help support
medical breakthroughs. Designed for the cloud, Red Hat Ceph Storage can
lower the cost of storing enterprise data and helps CLIMB manage data
growth—efficiently and automatically. Capitalizing on Red Hat Ceph
Storage’s demonstrated ability to handle web scale object storage, CLIMB
can now scale to 1.5PB of raw object storage per site.
Supporting Quotes
Thomas Connor, Ph.D., senior lecturer, Cardiff University and
co-investigator, CLIMB
“Red Hat Ceph Storage provides us with a high-performing system that can
scale to meet the significant storage needs required for genomic
sequencing. With researchers in both the office and the field we needed
a system that was compatible with our cloud platform, and we’ve received
that with Red Hat Ceph Storage. The system has been well received by our
researchers, allowing them to scale up resources as required.”
Ranga Rangachari, vice president and general manager, Storage, Red Hat
“The researchers at CLIMB are working on some of our toughest medical
issues, and we applaud their efforts. Their work requires a storage
solution that can handle the scale of their endeavor and enable them to
focus on what is important to them. We are proud to be supporting the
CLIMB research project with storage technology that can help to advance
the project's objectives. This exemplifies how Red Hat's solutions can
be used to help solve specific scientific challenges, and how open
source software can help researchers work together to achieve their
goals.”
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