Case Study: Baylor College Of Medicine Selects XLS For Human Genome Data Protection

Baylor College of Medicine supports the Center's multiple research laboratories with an extensive system of Linux clusters providing both primary processing and data protection services. As research results accelerate, data has increased more than ten-fold.

David Parker, Director of Informatics Systems at the Center, notes: "Preparing DNA generates lots of data. We have three new platforms for sequencing, so we are streaming more than one-and-a-half terabytes per day per machine."

Parker had two major problems to deal with as data came racing in. One was the backup technology itself. "The technology we were using was getting old," he said. "Our capacities were outgrowing LTO 1, and our quarterly backups took two months."