Bioinformatics group trades IBM Shark for iSCSI

"Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech has found a cheaper way to store its giant data sets: iSCSI.

VBI researchers used to store those gigabyte-sized -- and in extreme cases, terabyte (TB)-sized -- data sets on IBM's Enterprise Storage Server (ESS) or "Shark" storage, but the institute is actively encouraging researchers to tap into VBI's new storage resources like iSCSI arrays... Thus far, VBI has deployed approximately 12 TB of raw capacity... VBI plans to add many more terabytes of iSCSI storage arrays over the next couple of months."

Source:
Alex Barrett
Trends Editor, Storage
28 Mar 2005 | SearchStorage.com