EDITOR’S QUESTION
WHAT APPROACHES SHOULD
ORGANISATIONS TAKE TO COPE WITH
THE EXPLOSION OF DATA AS DIGITAL
TRANSFORMATION TAKES HOLD?
TO MODERNISE
AND ADDRESS
THESE
CHALLENGES,
IT LEADERS ARE
NOW DEPLOYING
SCALE-OUT
SOFTWARE
DEFINED
STORAGE FOR
ON-PREMISES
PRIVATE AND
HYBRID CLOUD
ENVIRONMENTS.
ata is, without a doubt,
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extremely valuable and
is becoming more so as
Digital Transformation
dominates the
technology industry.
Its growth in terms of sheer volume is
causing IT leaders to become concerned
as they are tasked with storing,
preserving and managing the data. A
resulting concern is unavoidably, cost.
Businesses across the globe are
attempting to discover new ways to tackle
the explosion of data and companies
such as Scality are offering a helping
hand. As a leader in software solutions for
global data orchestration and distributed
file and object storage, Scality has
reported how the Scality RING brings
unique efficiencies in today’s modern
healthcare and genomic data centres.
Over 40 global hospitals, hospital systems
and genomics research institutions in the
US, UK, Germany, France, Switzerland,
Israel, Japan and South America have
implemented the Scality RING. These
customers trust Scality with their missioncritical
diagnostic imaging data managed by
leading PACS and VNA solutions, as well as
key genomics data for use in development
of new biopharmaceuticals. Many of these
customers have experienced the ease of
initial deployment and the scaling of RING
with seamless capacity expansions to
petabytes of storage.
IT leaders in these healthcare institutions
share significant data growth challenges
for radiological imaging, genomic
sequencing and other healthcare-related
services and applications. To modernise
and address these challenges, IT leaders
are now deploying scale-out software
defined storage for on-premises private
and hybrid cloud environments.
Respondents reported that scale-out
storage deployments are 52% faster
than traditional storage, require 46% less
staff time managing the storage platform
and result in a 28% lower TCO (saving
US$270,000 per petabyte over three
years). Expand these savings over five
years and these IT leaders are saving
millions of dollars in resource and capital
expenditures with software-defined
storage solutions.
“The growing nature of data in the age
of COVID-19 puts more pressure on the
healthcare and genomics industries to
modernise with cost-effective solutions,”
said Amita Potnis, IDC Research Director.
“Our survey suggests that IT leaders who
are required to build on-prem private or
hybrid clouds, can rest a little easier with a
cost-effective software-defined, scale-out
object storage solution like Scality offers.”
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