The University of Alabama at Birmingham Enhances Research and Discovery with Red Hat Ceph Storage
Red Hat Ceph Storage provides scalable storage underpinnings for
leading research institution
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that the University of Alabama at Birmingham
(UAB) is using Red Hat Ceph Storage to support the growing needs of its
research community. UAB selected Red Hat Ceph Storage because it offers
researchers a flexible platform that can accommodate the vast amounts of
data necessary to support future innovation and discovery.
UAB is a leader in computational research, with more than $500 million
in annual research expenditures in areas including engineering,
statistical genetics, genomics and next-generation gene sequencing.
Researchers and students aggregate, analyze, and store massive amounts
of data, which is used to support groundbreaking medical discoveries
from new cancer biomarkers to state-of-the-art magnetic resonance
imaging techniques.
To accelerate vital research, UAB has invested heavily in expanding its
digital storage. UAB selected a software-defined storage solution, Red
Hat Ceph Storage, because of its scalability and ability to support
block, object, and file storage in one open source platform.
Additionally, UAB researchers sought a solution based on
industry-standard hardware to keep costs low, as well as one that is
compatible with cloud computing models such as OpenStack. With their new
software-defined storage environment, UAB researchers can store large
data sets on server-class hardware to enable big data analytics without
requiring hands-on storage management.
As requirements increase, capacity can be added gradually,
cost-effectively and without disruption. Using a shared-cost model,
researchers include the cost of industry-standard server hardware in
their grant applications and, if the grant is accepted, UAB’s IT
organization adds the server to the pool of storage and manages it. This
enables researchers to allocate more time and resources to their
research, rather than the costs and limitations of their storage
solutions. In the three years since UAB implemented Red Hat Ceph
Storage, they have reduced data storage costs by 54 percent.
Today, UAB operates a high-performance computing cluster that has
increased processing power by 11 times and storage capacity by 10 times.
The reliability and performance of Red Hat Ceph Storage has also
complemented the high-performance computing user base within the
university.
Supporting Quotes
Curtis A. Carver Jr., Ph.D., vice president and chief information
officer, The University of Alabama at Birmingham
“Our mission is information to change the world. The ability to scale
our storage, to unleash the full intellectual capital of our faculty,
researchers, students and clinicians without regard to storage, is a
dramatic step forward. We have truly changed the conversation about
storage, enabling innovation that is not limited by capacity barriers.
We are confident that our systems can manage the large amounts of data
from UAB researchers, as well as accommodate our future storage needs.”
Ranga Rangachari, vice president and general manager, Storage, Red Hat
“Every day, research institutions like UAB are fueling discoveries that
change lives. They need easy access to massive amounts of information,
and the ability to scale-out as their storage needs increase. We are
proud to offer an affordable storage solution that is not only based on
industry-leading technology, but is supported and certified by
world-class engineers.”
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