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Life Sciences

BlueArc Speeds Drug Discovery

Brilliance and persistence drive drug discovery. Lightning fast storage is the catalyst. Speeding drug discovery is vital. BlueArc makes research efforts more efficient across the fields of bioinformatics and cheminformatics.

BlueArc’s network storage engine fuels your efforts to explore more investigational paths, speed nucleotide comparisons for genomic and proteomic research, perform sophisticated analysis of molecular structures, and maximize your use of high-throughput screening results. BlueArc is a proven accelerator that drives results, increases development candidates, and can inevitably speed time to market.

As the nucleus of a research network, BlueArc network storage systems offer industry-leading performance for both compute-intensive and data-intensive environments. BlueArc removes the data-flow constraints that bottleneck even the most powerful computing clusters. And BlueArc provides fast data access that allows researchers to focus their attention on meeting the next research milestones rather than waiting for data. When projects require collaboration, BlueArc helps avoid costly duplicate efforts by promoting information sharing among researchers via fast, secure access to a central pool of files and databases that can scale up to a massive 4 Petabytes (PB).

In addition to speeding discovery, BlueArc reduces costs. BlueArc pioneered a modular approach that means virtually any part can be upgraded, banishing the expensive and disruptive “fork-lift” upgrade. And with innovative features like Tiered Storage that allow you to mix high-performance “active” disk drives with lowercost “archival” disk drives behind one storage server, BlueArc combines the highest performance offering with the lowest total cost of ownership.

From top universities to leading pharmaceutical and biotech firms, researchers enjoy faster time to results, increased collaboration, and lower costs by deploying BlueArc.

BlueArc storage solutions:

Optimized toenable research and discovery. BlueArc’s Titan SiliconServer is the ideal solution for high-performance computing (HPC) environments, including gene and protein sequencing or structural analysis. Using the Titan, these environments have been able to remove storage I/O constraints and eliminate the need for either specialized infrastructures or data distributed across compute nodes. Thanks to Titan, some of the world’s top research teams no longer experience failed jobs due to I/O timeouts. Researchers are also benefiting from greatly improved simultaneous access to shared datasets, such as gene and protein databases or compound libraries – whether in the same location or distributed worldwide. In these cases, Titan removes the need for duplicate datasets, database migration and replication, while greatly simplifying data management.

Solutions that streamline research andhelp contain the cost of discovery.

BlueArc’s Titan network storage system, built upon a patented hardware-accelerated architecture, delivers the most flexible, high performance, highly scalable, network storage solution available today. By maximizing data access and user loads with extremely low latency, BlueArc’s Titan dramatically accelerates research and enables collaboration in a variety of fields of inquiry. In addition, Titan’s enterprise-class management tools provide the assurance of ongoing, secure access to critical research data. The end result is compacted development cycles and a significant reduction in the cost of research infrastructures.

Research data and requirements are constantly growing,BlueArc’s innovative modular storage solution scales with you.

In today’s scientific environments, as new server and networking technologies are deployed, storage systems must be upgraded to meet the growing data research needs of the infrastructure. To scale capacity and performance, most storage systems require an entirely new product installation – an expensive, “forklift” upgrade. BlueArc’s Titan eliminates these painful hardware replacement costs, by delivering a more scalable, modular solution with maximum flexibility that allows administrators to upgrade server modules and capacity without replacing the entire system. With Titan’s ability to scale to 512TB it allows improved analysis on larger datasets, while providing the scalable performance to continue to meet the needs of the researchers.

All research data is not created equal; Tiered Storage enables a more cost effective research workflow.

Titan is built to address a variety of storage needs and budgets. Some scientific applications call for maximum performance, others require lower performance at lower cost, and lastly, some data requires long term WORM (Write Once Read Many) archive. Unlike traditional solutions that require a separate server or storage device to address each need, BlueArc’s unique Tiered Storage design supports any combination of high performance Fibre Channel or high density, lower cost SATA disk drives behind a single Titan server. This helps research organizations drive down the cost of discovery and the need to deploy and maintain separate storage. BlueArc’s Tiered Storage reduces the cost and complexity associated with matching different disk technology, capacity and performance to each unique research application requirement without deploying additional storage systems.

Remarkable strides in understanding genomic and proteomic roots of disease result from the innovative use of ever more powerful technology. For the most cutting-edge research demands – from advanced computing cluster work in nucleotide comparison and structural analysis to worldwide collaboration among colleagues – the speed of information drives the speed of drug discovery. In a world of advanced computing clusters and high-speed networking, storage systems can become the new bottleneck to the discovery process. BlueArc eliminates storage bottlenecks by delivering fast, tiered, and scalable storage that cuts costs and accelerates breakthrough results.