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Harvard Tackles Storage Issues
6/4/2004
Future storage needs are no longer a worry, as Titan allows Harvard Life Sciences
to grow our mass-storage solution without requiring purchase of additional controllers—a
key differentiator from other vendor options.
Our community will benefit from Titan’s modular blade architecture that
provides investment protection—including upgrades to new technologies
like 10Gb Ethernet. In addition to its technical capabilities, the BlueArc system
will eventually save the Life Sciences Program millions of dollars, as our teams
will be able to consolidate our hundreds of terabytes of direct-attached storage
spread across thousands of servers.
Cost savings also filter down to our user base, because users no longer need
to buy their own individual, limited, backup or mass-storage solutions. This
is basically a shared resource among all of our researchers.
We expect that the Titan product will provide a fourfold increase over our
current performance metrics and that performance will only increase as we upgrade
our Ethernet networks to support 10GB capabilities. We’ve been extremely
pleased with our choice and the solution that BlueArc has been able to provide.
James Reaney (reaney@mcb.harvard. edu) is Life Sciences Network and Server
Operations Manager at Harvard Life Sciences in Cambridge, Mass.
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