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.
Data is, without a doubt, 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 costeffective
software-defined, scale-out object
storage solution like Scality offers.”
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