For the University of Alabama at Birmingham, research is a $500 million per year expenditure, so it\u2019s critical that information is stored in a way that works for everyone while remaining secure.<\/p>\n
UAB, which conducts research in areas such as engineering, statistical genetics and genomics, chose Red Hat Ceph Storage for its expanding storage needs because of the solution\u2019s flexibility.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe ability to scale our storage, to unleash the full intellectual capital of our faculty, researchers, students and clinicians without regard to storage, is a dramatic step forward,\u201d says Curtis A. Carver Jr., the university\u2019s vice president and CIO, in a press release. \u201cWe have truly changed the conversation about storage, enabling innovation that is not limited by capacity barriers.\u201d<\/p>\n
Software-defined storage adds capacity securely<\/strong><\/p>\n Using Red Hat Ceph Storage, UAB researchers can store large data sets and enable data analytics without needing hands-on management. Because of its software-defined capabilities, Ceph is scalable, able to add capacity as needed in a cost-effective manner.<\/p>\n David Egts, chief technologist of Red Hat\u2019s North American public sector, says Ceph Storage limits the amount of shadow IT that can emerge when researchers try to add storage on their own.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s really easy to screw up if you\u2019re not an IT professional. The storage is a researcher\u2019s crown jewel,\u201d he says. \u201cIf you do all this research and you misconfigure your storage, that\u2019s really bad.\u201d<\/p>\n With more universities being targeted for data breach attacks – a recent report found breaches in the education sector up 100 percent – having a trusted and secure solution for storage is just as important as efficiency.<\/p>\n In addition to adding capacity to accommodate growing storage needs, the new software-defined storage solution is compatible with cloud computing models and open-source software.<\/p>\n Also, by not having to worry about the difficulty of storage – the Red Hat solution is easily managed by UAB\u2019s central IT – researchers can focus on more innovative work, like finding a cure for cancer.<\/p>\n \u201cOur mission is information to change the world,\u201d says Carver. \u201cWe are confident that our systems can manage the large amounts of data from UAB researchers, as well as accommodate our future storage needs.\u201d \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For the University of Alabama at Birmingham, research is a $500 million per year expenditure, so it\u2019s critical that information is stored in a way that works for everyone while remaining secure. UAB, which conducts research in areas such as engineering, statistical genetics and genomics, chose Red Hat Ceph Storage for its expanding storage needs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":17257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,608,14,29],"tags":[792,793,794,79,795,796,797,798,799,800],"class_list":["post-17256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud","category-education","category-more-news","category-software","tag-cloud-computing-models","tag-large-data-sets","tag-open-source-software","tag-red-hat","tag-red-hat-ceph-storage","tag-shadow-it","tag-software-defined-capabilities","tag-software-defined-storage-solution","tag-storage","tag-uab"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}