Managing Data Growth in
Life Sciences and Medicine

In today's life science and research environments, the amount of data being created by current and next-generation instruments threatens to overwhelm existing storage infrastructures, slowing research productivity and dramatically increasing costs.

To stay ahead of such extreme data growth and in order to maximize the value of this truly mission-critical information, research organisations must be able to efficiently store, secure, access and analyse this data at an unprecedented rate.

The event will showcase how technology can underpin the requirements for biomedical and life science research data management and sharing in Universities and other research organizations. Addressed will be the feasibility of achieving data storage, access, and sharing from a technological perspective.

The areas that will be addressed/considered are :

• Cost Correct Storage - saving direct and indirect costs
• Creating optimised storage networks - pushing up /O Performance
• Data Accessibility - managing security and Compliance
• Effectively managing different data types - supporting multi-protocol environments
• Data Sustainability and Durability - future proofing your data
• Information Lifecycle Management - storing the right data, in the right place, at the right time
• Emergence of  “Scale Out” Computing - the trend towards grid based computing
• Building a fault tolerant infrastructure - ensuring zero downtime

You will have the opportunity to meet and talk with individuals from a variety of storage vendors and find out how S3, and its technology partners, can work with you to help provide highly scalable, high performance, pay-as-you-grow storage solutions which are specifically designed to effectively store, secure and manage rapidly growing stores of file-based information - such as sequence and biomedical.