Western Digital and Qumulo Enable Massive Capacity and Scale for IHME COVID-19 Health Analytics and Vaccine Roll Out
January 26 2021 - 10:30AM
Business Wire
IHME Utilizes Qumulo’s Scalable File Data
Platform with Western Digital’s Ultrastar® HDDs and SSDs to Compute
up to 2PB Per Day to Provide Public Pandemic Research, Statistics
and Projections
Architecting how data enables the world to solve its biggest
problems, Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC) announced today that
the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), in
partnership with Qumulo, a breakthrough leader in file data
management for hybrid cloud environments, is employing Western
Digital’s Ultrastar DC HC550 18TB HDDs and Ultrastar DC SN640
NVMeTM SSDs for ongoing COVID-19 research and vaccine rollout.
IHME, based at the University of Washington’s School of
Medicine, is an independent global health research organization.
Their mission is to improve the health of the world’s population by
providing the best freely available public health information to
policymakers and healthcare institutions. By providing this data,
organizations can make informed decisions critical to saving
lives.
“When the World Health Organization officially announced a
pandemic, requests from hospitals, state governments and other
countries started pouring in for models of data and forecasts,”
said Serkan Yalcin, director of IT Infrastructure at IHME. “Teaming
up with Qumulo from the beginning and utilizing Western Digital
drives has enabled us to distill hundreds of millions of data
points into a single visualization which allows policymakers to
easily view results and communicate them with their teams. Now, as
vaccines are rolling out around the world, we have been able to
further extend projections with even more data to give decision
makers the most robust information possible.”
Capturing and analyzing large data sets requires top-of-the-line
storage infrastructure. Qumulo provides file data platforms to help
organizations easily store and manage file data. The C-432T offers
a cached- performance hybrid storage system for data center,
private and public cloud environments. This high-performance system
yields a dynamically scalable architecture and real-time visibility
of data imperative to organizations like IHME with massive amounts
of data.
Qumulo’s system includes Western Digital’s Ultrastar DC HC550
18TB HDDs with HelioSeal® technology for their high capacities, low
power and high reliability. Ultrastar DC SN640 NVMe SSDs are
leveraged to provide extreme performance with six times improvement
in sequential read compared to SATA SSDs, which allows for faster
data analysis. With Western Digital’s vertically integrated storage
devices, Qumulo’s C-432T provides 432TB of raw storage capacity in
a 2U configuration.
“Partnering with Western Digital helped us to deliver a fast,
reliable file data platform to IHME that analyzes up to 20x more
data every day than previous solutions,” said Ben Gitenstein, vice
president of product at Qumulo. “Our software-driven platform
offers enterprise-level capabilities that radically simplifies
analytics of massive data sets which is critical for customers to
be successful with unstructured data. This partnership with Western
Digital allows customers like IHME to simplify the complexity of
their infrastructure, accelerate innovation and unleash the power
of their data, wherever it resides.”
“Scaling for increased data demand is a common hurdle
organizations face. In this case, the increase of data was sudden
and exponential,” said Andrew Dorian, vice president of data center
hard drives at Western Digital. “We’re honored to work with Qumulo
to provide the storage foundation to help IHME create data-driven,
science-based, actionable plans to combat COVID-19. In partnership
with Qumulo, we were able to quickly provide a scalable on-premises
file storage system with high-capacity HDDs and high-performance
NVMe SSDs to address a surge in data that benefits people
everywhere.”
Related Western Digital resources:
- Case Study: Qumulo and IHME Deploy Western Digital NVMe SSDs
and Hard Drives to Combat Covid-19
- Blog: Three technologies that make HDD magic
- Blog: 5 data center trends driving the next generation of NVMe
SSDs
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About Western Digital
Western Digital creates environments for data to thrive. As a
leader in data infrastructure, the company is driving the
innovation needed to help customers capture, preserve, access and
transform an ever-increasing diversity of data. Everywhere data
lives, from advanced data centers to mobile sensors to personal
devices, our industry-leading solutions deliver the possibilities
of data. Western Digital data-centric solutions are comprised of
the Western Digital®, G-Technology™, SanDisk® and WD® brands.
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