At the Drug Discovery Technology 2002 conference in Boston this week, IBM unveiled three bundled storage networking solutions. These are combinations of pre-existing disk drives, tape storage, and servers that have been tested to ensure interoperability and have been designed to gather scientific data into a single repository that can be accessed by disparate members of a research team, IBM says.
For small research groups, IBM has made available a package including the IBM TotalStorage FASt500 mid-range disc for sharing data between servers, the IBM TotalStorage Linear Tape Open (LTO) midrange tape storage device for backup and archiving, and an IBM eServer p630 running IBM's flavor of Unix, AIX.
IBM is actively encouraging research organizations to use its DB2 database software and server management software from Tivoli, but purchasers will not be required to use that software in order to use the storage bundles, it says.
Big Blue estimates the storage opportunity in life sciences at $4.6 billion in 2002, growing to $6.9 billion by 2004. It also says that over 7 petabytes -- or 7,000 terabytes -- of storage are needed each year by 100 universities and labs doing genomic research, which offers a glimpse of the massive data storage requirements facing this emerging industry (see Oxford Cures Storage Ills
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