Western Digital Expands Solutions in Life Sciences Through Partnership with Globus to Connect Massive Data to the Researchers...
November 13 2017 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Integration of Western Digital’s ActiveScale
Object Storage System and Globus’ Data Management Service Offers
Reliable Preservation, Movement, Collaboration and Analysis of
Research Data for Greater Scientific Discoveries
SUPERCOMPUTING 17 (SC17), Booth #643 —
Western Digital® Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC) today announced a
partnership with Globus to integrate Globus’ research data
management software with its ActiveScale™ object-based storage
(OBS) system. Together, the combined solution provides simplified
access to large-scale research data, giving customers the ability
to easily capture, preserve, share and analyze data for
greater scientific discoveries. Helping solve both scientific and
technological workflow challenges, the ActiveScale System, with the
Globus for ActiveScale connector, delivers highly durable and
affordable private cloud storage that utilizes a proven research
data management service to increase productivity and streamline
workflows for Big Data analytics.
Researchers in medicine and biology, for example, increasingly
work with massive datasets to better understand diseases and find
new treatments or insights to unlock new discoveries. These
datasets are rich with information, but create technical challenges
due to their size, complexity, privacy requirements, and the
specialized analytical tools needed for analysis. Today,
researchers must acquire disparate tools and infrastructures that
leverage this vast amount of data effectively.
Western Digital and Globus help solve many of these research
challenges as researchers can use the Globus service interface to
seamlessly move and share data, while the ActiveScale System
provides petabyte-scale storage that delivers predictable and
consistent access, as well as the long-term preservation of that
data. The combined solution helps accelerate discoveries by making
research data discoverable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable
for more researchers. Additional benefits include:
- Enhanced collaboration for researchers
while reducing IT management burdens
- Time savings by simplifying the access
and sharing of large amounts of data
- Cost reduction by storing data on
low-cost high-density ActiveScale object storage system
- Increased data durability and integrity
to ensure valuable data is protected long-term
- Improved IT agility by quickly
provisioning and redeploying storage resources to support new
research activities
“Since 2010, we have helped many thousands of researchers in
life sciences, environmental, and oil and gas industries, to name a
few, transfer and share over 50 billion files and 300 petabytes of
data, simplifying research data management and accelerating
discovery,” said Vas Vasiliadis, chief customer officer for
Globus. “By using Western Digital’s ActiveScale System with
the Globus for ActiveScale connector, not only can researchers
easily keep sensitive data protected and private, they can also
quickly scale on-premises storage while receiving optimal
performance and high durability for important projects, giving
researchers the ability to focus on science, not on IT issues.”
“Research data provides the underpinning of important new life
science discoveries, and new analytical capabilities, like machine
learning, are driving researchers to access and collaborate on much
larger datasets than ever before,” said Joan Wrabetz, vice
president of marketing, Data Center Systems Business Unit, Western
Digital. “As leaders in our respective fields, Western Digital and
Globus understand the evolving research workflows, and are helping
IT and data executives rethink their approach to large scale data
collection and management.”
Wrabetz added, “Together, the ActiveScale object storage system
and Globus software enable organizations to transition to new,
scalable storage capabilities that advance the study and use of
life science data. The combined solution provides superior value,
simplicity, durability and storage cost-efficiencies, along with
the usability, reliability and performance of Globus for data
management.”
The ActiveScale System with Globus for ActiveScale connector is
now available.
For more information on the Western Digital ActiveScale
portfolio, visit: https://www.hgst.com/products/systems or
http://www.hgst.com/solutions/by-industry/life-sciences
To request pricing information, visit:
https://www.globus.org/connectors/request-information?field20=1
For more information on Globus for ActiveScale, visit:
https://www.globus.org/globus-activescale.
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