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ILM for life sciences: the next big storage play?
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Computer Technology Review
Publication Date: 01-OCT-05 |
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access |
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Full Article Title: ILM for life sciences: the next big storage play?(Storage Networking)(Information Lifecycle Management) |
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Article Excerpt
Raise your hand if you know all about flow cytometers. Okay, how about confocal microscopes? No? Don't feel bad, most of us storage pros have never heard of these instruments either, despite the fact that they are commonly used by thousands of life sciences organizations for research and clinical analysis. But what we should know is that these organizations consume more storage capacity than virtually any other vertical market. Large research facilities use these devices for analysis on cellular and molecular mechanisms, and numerous hospitals and other clinical research labs use them to discriminate between types of blood cells such as leukemias and lymphomas. So what does this interesting fact have to do with Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)?
Tens of thousands of these instruments are now in use by thousands of facilities worldwide, many of which have dozens or even hundreds of them, and each one is generating tens or hundreds of thousands of files per year. More dollars were spent over the past year for these types of instruments than all storage products combined and an order of magnitude more files were generated by them than were by Microsoft Office or...
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