Partners HealthCare Systems centralizes storage and lowers cost with Gluster

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2010-02-25

Boston-based Partners is a non-profit health care system and teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School. Brent Richter, Partners’ corporate manager for enterprise research infrastructure and services, needed a central storage repository for data generated by about 40 research teams across several hospitals in the Partners system. The data would have to be secure and kept separately. Using Gluster and Sun Microsystems X4500 servers (Thumper), Partners build a centralized storage pool that has scaled to over 300TB. Read the full article at SearchStorage: Healthcare system rolls it’s own data storage ‘cloud’ for researchers.

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Partners HealthCare Systems centralizes storage and lowers cost with Gluster

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