Vancouver, BC. March 7, 2020. CEPH storage is ideally suited for storing Petabyte scale genomic data since it has a distributed architecture, it is deployed on commodity servers, it has all the reliability features that you expect from enterprise storage, and there is no vendor lock-in (open source). Hence it…
Contra Costa County Hospital is a 800-bed government hospital in the San Francisco-Bay Area. Their IT department is using HPE MSA storage and ESXi compute to run their EMR, imaging and other critical care applications. They were seeing high storage latencies from their HPE MSA appliances, because of inadequate MSA…
Central Valley Health Networks is a healthcare collaborative providing shared IT services to various community hospitals and clinics in the Central Valley region of California. They are using Dell VRTX hyper-converged appliances to host their IT applications. Dell VRTX is a 4-blade hyper-converged appliance with an integrated switch and internal…
Gardner Packard Health have radiology related applications running in VMs. Radiology applications process large amounts of images and related metadata, typically in small block sizes. At this customer this workload was also write intensive. It is such write intensive small block workload that stresses storage appliances considerably. This is because…
Tourbillon Capital have a proprietary trading application that required under 5ms write latencies at all times. This problem was compounded by the fact that they also had a stretched SAN cluster that spanned a WAN link, which meant that writes from the application had to be committed to the SAN…