MOUNTAIN
VIEW, Calif., March 21,
2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pure Storage® (NYSE:
PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers the world's most advanced data
storage technology and services, today announced that the
Australian Genome Research Facility (AGRF), Australia's largest provider of genomics
services and solutions, is leveraging FlashBlade®, Pure
Storage's unified fast file and object (UFFO) storage solution, to
speed data performance and reduce genomic pipeline turnaround times
for global clients.
Customer Challenge:
Catering to 15,000 worldwide customers, AGRF partners with the
genomics community to provide innovative and integrated
capabilities across the biomedical, clinical, agricultural and
environmental sectors. Having been at the center of COVID-19
research as well as critical conservation efforts for Australia's threatened species, AGRF's genomic
science solutions are focused on making profound improvements to
people's everyday lives using data.
However, genomics sequencing generates massive amounts of data
and metadata requiring scalable, reliable and high performance
storage infrastructure. In fact, AGRF generates over 10 terabytes
of raw data each week, which increases by roughly four-fold before
making its way back to clients.
Customer Impact:
In order to manage these large sets of raw data and deliver
rapid, cost-effective sequencing services, AGRF replaced its
existing scale-out file system technology, which was difficult to
manage, unstable, complex and expensive, with Pure Storage
FlashBlade to increase metadata performance, storage capacity, and
ultimately optimize its end-to-end sequencing pipeline.
By migrating its existing workloads to FlashBlade, AGRF obtained
higher I/O and bandwidth, all at lower latency, allowing compute
jobs to finish faster and increasing the company's compute
capability without compromising capacity. Supported by
FlashBlade, AGRF has reduced its clinical genome sequencing
times by as much as 86% - going from 28 days to just 10 days, and
as little as four days in urgent cases. Additionally, the company
has reduced the time it takes to complete the key initial phase of
its analysis workflow from 18 hours to 3 hours, a 6x improvement in
performance, while reducing another subsequent phase of the
workflow from 10 hours to just 23 minutes, equating to a 26x
improvement in performance.
Executive Insight:
"The simplicity and scalability of FlashBlade not only enables
us to run our sequencing analysis workflow quickly and
frictionlessly, but the increased performance allows us to
introduce new technology to help with overall compute
functionality. Additionally, FlashBlade can directly connect with
Sequencers, including Illumina, to ingest the raw sequenced data,
which dramatically improves AGRF's workflows in the field. Now, we
have the ability to deliver faster results, leading to critical
decisions being made sooner, while taking on more life-saving
projects." – Douglas Morrison, ICT
Manager at Australian Genome Research Facility (AGRF)
Learn More:
- AGRF Accelerates Genomic Pipelines by up to 86% with Pure
Storage
- Pure Storage FlashBlade
About Pure Storage
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to get the most from their data while reducing the complexity and
expense of managing the infrastructure behind it. Pure's commitment
to providing true storage as-a-service gives customers the agility
to meet changing data needs at speed and scale, whether they are
deploying traditional workloads, modern applications, containers,
or more. Pure believes it can make a significant impact in reducing
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that enable customers to reduce their carbon and energy footprint.
And with the highest Net Promoter Score in the industry, Pure's
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