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06/10/09

Seeking to maximize the storage capacity of its life science research data, the Cornell Center for Advanced Computing (CAC) has partnered with Ocarina Networks, an online storage optimization solution provider, to compress and store its next-generation data sets.

Under the partnership agreement, Cornell will perform extensive data compression testing across a wide range of research applications—now stored on data infrastructure provider DataDirect Networks’ (DDN) Silicon Storage Architecture (S2A) 9700, a high- performance storage platform—using Ocarina’s ECOSystem, which reads stored files and uses content-aware compression and de-duplication to reduce the amount of space those file take. With next-generation sequencing techniques producing vast quantities of data that must be quickly processed and stored online for a certain period of time, the university is in need of a cost-efficient, scalable data solution—and Ocarina offers a space savings of 50 percent or more, says Dr. David Lifka, Cornell CAC director.  Read More...