Medical research is surging into the 21st Century, and includes the dawn of personalized medicine. The realization of personalized medicine is being driven by the increasing speed and dropping costs of gene sequencing. These new technologies for rapid sequencing have created a dramatic need for storage technologies that will radically increase the speed, while reducing costs for research storage. Read this white paper to learn how the exponential growth in genome-mapping data has spawned the growth in affordable, petabyte-capacity storage solutions that can scale as quickly as the data is produced.
HP StorageWorks 9100 Extreme
Data Storage SystemPetabyte-Scale Storage for Today's Biomedical Research Communities
When you're on the leading edge of to personalize medical care based on a patient's genetic history. Personalized medicine will allow medical research, you need Extreme doctors to prescribe designer medications, and make Storage better risk predictions and treatment decisions. These advances will also allow doctors to calculate risk Medical research is surging into the 21st Century, factors for genetic illnesses such as diabetes, heart leaping forward with new discoveries every day. disease and Alzheimer's disease.Nowhere is that progress more evident than in The realization of personalized medicine is being the dawn of personalized medicine. Medicine has driven by the increasing speed and dropping costs of traditionally taken a one-size-fits-all approach for gene sequencing. The first human genome sequence patient care and the need for personalized medicine project took years to accomplish the goal-today the is now. Medical researchers are confident that project would take weeks. The costs are also rapidly within the next few years, personalized medicine dropping. Last year the cost to have an individual will become the standard due to advances in gene genome sequenced was $1 million. Next-generation sequencing. technology is aimed at quickly reducing the cost to Each of us has a unique genetic profile and medical less than $10,000, and someday down to $1,000.researchers are constantly increasing their knowledge over these profiles, and soon researchers will be able These new technologies for rapid sequencing have independently scale beyond traditional storage created a dramatic need for storage technologies systems in both capacity and performance, up to that will radically increase the speed, while reducing a maximum configuration of sixteen server blades costs for research storage. The newest innovation in with up to 12.8 CPU cores per unit. That delivers an genome sequencing takes high resolution images of astounding 3.2 GB/second of raw performance with the DNA segments as they are sequenced and stores up to 820 TB of storage. Plus, the plug-n-play HP them. A single run of a genome sequencer can easily ExDS9100 can be deployed and running in a few create more than 1 terabyte of data and currently, short hours! No disruptive, weeks-long deployment most sequencers only have enough internal storage to and integration efforts, no more worries about running store the data for a day or two. out of capacity, and no concerns about ongoing compatibility with your evolving infrastructure, because In order to effectively use and store these huge the standards-based solution will remain viable long amounts of data, facilities are searching for cost into the future.effective means to better house the data. Researchers estimate that they will see exponential data growth in even the next 12 to 18 months. The pace at which Who needs it?scientists are learning and developing ground- If you are in the life sciences research field, chances breaking technologies regarding gene data requires are, you do.that they have an affordable solution that scales as . Pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, quickly as the data is produced. engaged in drug discovery and drug development. Bioinformatics companies, specializing in identifying HP StorageWorks 9100 Extreme genes and for clinical or research purposesData Storage System (ExDS9100) . Academic and medical research institutions with While very large storage solutions have been around facilities for sequencing, genomic, or biomolecular for years, they have not been easy to manage, and studiestheir inflexibility and high capital and operational . National research labs with large-scale genomics costs make them unsuitable for the exponential growth and proteomics projectsof today's next generation life sciences research. . Systems biology companies working to model HP has the answer: the HP StorageWorks 9100 biological systemsExtreme Data Storage System (ExDS9100). This cost- For companies focused on bioinformatics and using effective, easy-to-use network-attached storage (NAS) high-data-rate instruments and seeking flexible, solution has been designed to provide massively low-cost and high performing network-attached scalable file-based storage-from 82 TB out of the storage, the HP ExDS9100 solution offers an box up to se... [download for more]
