Better Discoveries. Faster.
BlueArc storage solutions deliver high performance—essential for life sciences research—and a highly scalable architecture that makes it simple for organizations to scale up as their storage requirements grow. Most life sciences organizations support a variety of research, each placing different demands on a research IT infrastructure. In practical terms, data is typically accessed from heterogeneous clients and applications that use multiple protocols, including NFS, CIFS and iSCSI. This is driving the need for storage solutions that scale bigger, store smarter and accelerate everything. BlueArc solutions meet these criteria by providing scalability, performance, affordability, manageability, multi-protocol support and features that address long-term data management.
BlueArc for Next-Generation Sequencing:
- SCALE EASILY to accommodate growing volume
- LOWER TCO by automating data migration
- DELIVER PERFORMANCE to feed high-throughput analysis
- ENHANCE FLEXIBILITY to manage varied computational workflows
- ENSURE minimal disruptions for researchers
Next-generation sequencers (NGS) are dramatically accelerating life sciences research by providing a much richer set of data per sequencing run. Researchers not only have more insight into the biological systems they are studying, they are also able to perform their work more quickly and at less cost. However, these innovations also place significant demands on storage for next-generation sequencing because each faster and more frequent run produces much more data than previous-generation systems. NGS systems can generate terabytes of data per day and hundreds of terabytes per year: Life sciences organizations using more than one sequencer can see their data growth escalate into multiple petabytes. Within these environments, workloads are increasingly mixed and unpredictable, creating even more challenges for the data storage infrastructure.
BlueArc shared network storage systems deliver an ideal storage solution for NGS because they are capable of providing both the performance and scalability required in this environment. Data growth can be managed within the simplicity of a single name space and operational costs can be lowered with automated policy-based data management tools. On the performance side, BlueArc’s storage-for-sequencing solution can handle the broad spectrum of workloads and their variations over time. This will simplify and consolidate management of the data assets for any life sciences organization, including large research organizations, centralized sequencing facilities, small life sciences companies, small labs and even individual researchers.
BlueArc for Drug Discovery:
- COLLABORATE with shared access to multiple files
- EXPEDITE decisions on drug candidates
- ELIMINATE failed jobs due to I/O timeouts
- ACCESS all tests and experiments, even those in lower tiers
- MANAGE your storage automatically and intelligently
Drug discovery is at the fulcrum of innovation in life sciences research. Researchers are utilizing the latest advances in next-generation DNA sequencing and equipment to discover and develop new drugs while they are also creating innovative approaches to the processes of testing, analyzing, trialing and screening. This means researchers are not only generating far more data than ever before, it also means they are working faster, more collaboratively and with a greater need for unencumbered access to an increasingly wider range of experiments and tests. With an ever-shifting workflow as well as high data storage requirements, drug discovery is a field that demands a high-performance, scalable, intelligent and flexible storage solution. BlueArc’s network storage solutions are particularly well suited to address the challenges of drug discovery because they enable collaboration, scalability, high-performance and intelligent tiering.
BlueArc solutions support multiple protocols including NFS, CIFS and iSCSI, allowing researchers in a heterogeneous environment to seamlessly access all data relevant to their work, which is necessary for today’s highly collaborative drug discovery efforts. High performance is also critical in providing an environment for researchers to quickly analyze and evaluate a multitude of experiments and make decisions about which drug candidates to move forward. Researchers also benefit from improved simultaneous access to shared datasets such as gene and protein databases or compound libraries, whether these datasets are in the same location or distributed worldwide. No matter where the datasets are located, BlueArc solutions remove the need for duplicate datasets, unnecessary database migration and replication, while greatly simplifying data management.
