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Arizona State University's Biodesign Research Institute Leverages DataCore's Storage Virtualization Platform to Fuel Biomedical ResearchFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. --(Business Wire)-- DataCore, a leader in software-defined storage, today announced that the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University (ASU), the second largest metropolitan university in the United States, has successfully adopted a software-defined storage architecture by implementing DataCore's SANsymphony-V storage virtualization platform. With the help of DataCore, the Biodesign Institute has increased application performance by up to five times, maximized storage capacity of existing investments, improved uptime and significantly reduced costs by removing old storage controllers that had become high-maintenance and unaffordable. "DataCore enables all the different storage devices that comprise our architecture to communicate and work with each other - even though they come from a wide mixture of vendors - thereby allowing the Institute to gain efficiencies and reduce our costs," said Scott LeComte, senior IT manager at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute. "Just as important is the fact that DataCore's software is portable and can reside in different locations, meaning we avoid a single point of failure by deploying two DataCore-powered nodes that operate synchronously, campus-wide and automatically can take over for each other in the event of a failure." The Biodesign Institute dedicates its research to addressing today's critical global challenges in healthcare, sustainability and security. The Institute is made up of 14 different research centers, almost $60 million in annual research expenditures and more than 500 personnel who rely on the DataCore-powered storage infrastructure. Because the Institute is so research-intensive, researchers are all required to save large amounts of data generated from experiments that have been conducted for long periods of time. The reason for doing so is that reearchers are frequently called to "prove" how they achieved a particular discovery - either by a federal agency, like the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), or by a third party company seeking to buy the research outright. "When we first got DataCore, it was amazing how easily it fit into the environment and just worked. We are very pleased with just how seamless and non-disruptive the solution has been and its flexibility proves itself time and time again," added LeComte. By using DataCore, the Institute's IT team can now easily and readily pool all storage capacity and provide centralized oversight, provisioning and management to its entire storage architecture. The Biodesign Institute was able to expand its IT environment while cutting costs at the same time as it saw the total cost of supporting one terabyte of storage decrease from $2,500 per TB to $1,000 per TB. SANsymphony-V currently manages more than 300 TBs of total mirrored capacity. "IT departments, especially at state-run institutions such as Arizona State, are constantly being tasked to find new ways to reduce cost, while ensuring that IT operations run smoothly," said Steve Houck, COO at DataCore. "By creating a software-defined storage architecture based on SANsymphony-V, the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State was not only able to significantly reduce costs, but increased application performance by up to five times as well." A complete case study discussing the DataCore deployment at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University is available here: http://datacore.com/testimonials/biodesign-institute-at-asu About The Biodesign Institute The Biodesign Institute at ASU addresses today's critical global challenges in healthcare, sustainability and security by developing solutions inspired from natural systems and translating those solutions into commercially viable products and clinical practices. About DataCore Software DataCore is a leader in software-defined storage. The company's storage virtualization software empowers organizations to seamlessly manage and scale their data storage architectures, delivering massive performance gains at a fraction of the cost of solutions offered by legacy storage hardware vendors. Backed by 10,000 customer sites around the world, DataCore's adaptive and self-learning and healing technology takes the pain out of manual processes and helps deliver on the promise of the new software defined data center through its hardware agnostic architecture. Visit http://www.datacore.com or call (877) 780-5111 for more information. DataCore, the DataCore logo and SANsymphony are trademarks or registered trademarks of DataCore Software Corporation. Other DataCore product or service names or logos referenced herein are trademarks of DataCore Software Corporation. All other products, services and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
