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When genomics institutions buy storage, they usually base their decisions on the price of the solution. What they don’t account for is the — often unquantifiable — costs they’ll run up down the road.
In an organization that is supposed to be advancing the cause of science, they’re asking how they can save money. The question they should be asking is this: How can they better serve the research?
Check out this blog post, authored by Adam Marko from Panasas, to learn how storage architectures like parallel file systems can push research forward—vs. holding it back.