MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,
Aug. 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/
-- Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers
storage as-a-service in a multi-cloud world, announced today that
the McArthur lab at McMaster University
is using Pure's FlashBladeTM as its backbone in the
fight against antibiotic resistance in superbugs through data.
As superbug resistance and the growing global scourge of
COVID-19 places modern medicine under siege, the McArthur Lab is
fighting back. Somewhere in the millions of data points processed
in the lab daily, there's a new treatment waiting to be
discovered.
In charge of the lab is genomics professor and researcher
Andrew McArthur, Ph.D. He is using
Pure's technology to accelerate decision-making in the fight
against life-threatening superbugs and viruses like COVID-19.
To support this mission, McArthur made the decision to use
FlashBlade, the most advanced unified fast file and object storage
platform designed to handle highly complex processes
associated with massive genomic datasets. This sped up the time to
research and seek cures for superbugs. When COVID-19 hit, the lab
was able to pivot immediately and leverage the innovative
high-performance infrastructure already in place to combat the
virus.
"There's no point in playing with traditional storage because
it's just not fast enough," said Andrew G.
McArthur, Ph.D., McMaster
University. "With Pure Storage we can stay ahead of the
curve as we fight global threats to human health."
Using data, and backed by the modern storage infrastructure from
Pure, the McArthur Lab developed a tool for the international
health sciences community that can help determine how the virus
that causes COVID-19 is spreading and whether it is evolving. The
tool tracks how the virus changes over time, how it transmits
between people and how well it survives outside the body – it can
help scientists understand if the virus has evolved between patient
A and patient B.
"Data is critical to the daily insights in the lab," said
McArthur. "However, the vast and growing amount of information
relies on near-instant processing times. By replacing our legacy
storage infrastructure with Pure, we have the ability to gain
insight into the virus through next-generation sequencing."
As gene sequencing technology continues to advance, rapid
scalability and performance will remain critical to the lab's
efforts.
"The need to quickly identify and respond to global threats to
human health has never been clearer," said Josh Gluck, Vice President of Global Healthcare
Technology Strategy at Pure Storage. "With FlashBlade, researchers
at McArthur Lab can continue to conduct research that has
widespread global impact."
Read the case study to learn more about how the McArthur
Lab at McMaster is using next
generation technology in the fight against superbugs.
About Pure Storage
Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) gives
technologists their time back. Pure delivers a modern data
experience that empowers organizations to run their operations as a
true, automated, storage as-a-service model seamlessly across
multiple clouds. One of the fastest-growing enterprise IT companies
in history, Pure helps customers put data to use while reducing the
complexity and expense of managing the infrastructure behind it.
And with a certified customer satisfaction score in the top one
percent of B2B companies, Pure's ever-expanding list of customers
are among the happiest in the world.
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