Redefining Genomenomics

Affordable Life Sciences Storage from DDN

No company understands the economics of storage for genome, protein and DNA research data better than DataDirect Networks. Around the world, leading life sciences research organizations are more and more choosing

"Before we received the DDN ExaScaler S2A9900 system, TGEN was not able to support this level of next-generation sequence alignment - our existing systems could simply not deliver enough performance." - James Lowey, Translational Genomics - Director of HPC

DataDirect Networks' storage solutions to accelerate and cost-optimize the life sciences dataflow. Designed for maximum performance & capacity scalability - DDN storage solutions are designed for every part of the life sciences data workflow:

With over 10 years experience of solving the world's most demanding HPC and cluster computing challenges, DDN is the established leader in delivering systems to the largest and fastest research environments in world. Having delivered more bandwidth to the Top500 than all other storage companies combined - DDN has an accute understanding of the requirements in scalable research environments.

Around the world, leading research organizations select DDN technology to enable the life science data lifecycle. DDN solutions provide:

Maximum scalability	Capable of storing over 2.4 Petabytes of single array capacity, and over 10 petabytes of single volume capacity - DDN is the gold standard for large file and backup/archive storage.
Superior Cost-Efficiency	By packaging more life sciences data per system and per rack than any other storage company - DDN can deliver industry leading storage economics for petabyte environments. In only 2 floortiles, researchers can house up to a 2 Petabyte biosciences storage archive. This saves up to 10 data center racks as compared to traditional storage technology.
Unrivaled Performance	Built from the world's leading supercomputing storage technology, DDN delivers scalable building blocks to enable application and accelerated alignment & processing scaling.

For deep storage archives, the tight collaboration between DDN and Ocarina Networks delivers additional capacity savings of 50% or more for sequencer research data.

DDN's partnership with Ocarina delivers over 100 data reduction algorithms that support over 600 file types. This includes large, graphics intensive genomics files such as .dat, .arr, .tiff .txt and .cel outputs to achieve an average of 50% data compression and to free up archive storage space. With DDN high-density storage packaging, researchers can store up to 2PB of optimized drug discovery and research data in a single data center rack.

"Despite advances in disk technology, storing research data remains an expensive proposition. We are working with Ocarina and DDN to effectively maximize storage capacity without sacrificing performance." David Lifka, Cornell CAC director