The Swiss Health 2030 Genome Centre Can Complete Genomic Data Analysis Rapidly, thanks to Pure Storage

Zurich, Switzerland – March 13, 2023 — Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers the world’s most advanced data storage technology and services, announced that it is supporting the Health 2030 Genome Centre with powerful and efficient storage solutions. The Genome Centre, a Swiss centre for genome sequencing and analysis, is working tirelessly on a key goal: enhancing the speed of DNA sequencing analysis to support rapid diagnosis.

The Centre’s Need For Transformation:

• The Centre's bioanalysts perform DNA sequencing analysis that researchers and clinicians need for diagnosis: The goal is to harness the large amounts of data generated in the process to realize the full potential of sequencing technology to provide more personalized medicine, which results in more efficient treatments for patients. To achieve this, the Genome Centre needed a powerful, efficient, flexible and scalable storage solution for its unstructured data. Pure Storage was able to meet and exceed their requirements.
• Infrastructure must be able to adapt accordingly to processed data amounts: Arnaud Hungler, head of IT infrastructure for the Genome Centre, explained: "We have more and more DNA samples to sequence and analyse, which is a significant amount of data. Depending on the projects we are running, our storage needs can increase very quickly from zero to 200 TB and vice versa. Our infrastructure must be able to adapt accordingly."
• Pure Storage helps to improve storage performance and support new use cases: The Genome Centre selected Pure Storage FlashBlade®, a leading unified fast file and object (UFFO) storage platform. Not only this, but the solution was deployed through Evergreen//One™, a true storage as-a-Service offering which can adapt to spikes in data volumes without requiring the overprovisioning of storage capacity on a day-to-day basis.

Key Benefits For the Centre:

• Critical analytical data available ten times faster on the platform used by researchers and clinicians: "Thanks to Pure Storage, analytical data is available ten times faster on the platform used by researchers and clinicians, and transfer speeds have doubled. Clinicians can analyse data stored on our interface in real time without having to download it themselves, and diagnose patients faster and easier," Arnaud explained.
• Evergreen//One™ subscription allows the Genome Centre to scale storage to meet ever-changing needs: This means it doesn’t need to pay upfront for 500 TB of data it only uses periodically.
• Efficient on-demand customer support and user-friendly Pure1™ interface for storage management: The simplicity of the system saves the team countless hours on daily operational tasks.

Executive Insight:

• "High computing power and fast, easy access to results are critical for research and diagnostics at the Genome Centre,” commented Turan Kara, Country Manager Switzerland at Pure Storage. “In addition, as is generally the case in healthcare, the highest level of data security and integrity must be maintained to meet regulatory requirements. All these are huge benefits for patients who want fast and efficient treatments – and can be sure that their personal health data is secure. We are proud to support the Genome Centre in delivering personalized medicine through our high-performance solutions and unique consumption models," Kara concluded.

  
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