Marine Biological Laboratory Chooses Starboard

Starboard Storage Systems,
Inc. announced that the Marine Biological
Laboratory (MBL), an international center dedicated to scientific
discovery, research, and education based in Woods Hole, Mass., is using the
Starboard AC72 Storage System to improve its storage systems.

The MBL is currently using Starboard Storage AC72s to store research data
produced by its next generation biological sequencing
system.

MBL’s data storage needs arose earlier this year when it implemented
the sequencing instrument, which generates images of DNA molecules used for
large-scale genomic transcriptomic and metagenomic projects. The challenge the
MBL faced was in managing the live data for over 16-24 active experiments per
year, each experiment generating 3.25TB of data, in a mixed-workload
environment that included unstructured and structured data. To meet these new
and growing demands the MBL needed a storage solution that was fast,
expandable, and fit within budget.

The company chose the AC72 for both
primary storage and data archiving. It combined SSD Accelerator Tier and
Dynamic Storage Pool, simplified the management of MBL’s storage environment,
while at the same time delivering twice the performance at half the cost of the
company’s legacy DAS and NAS systems. The solution met the company’s
storage needs and it scalability will continue to meet expanding needs
well into the future.

"Compared to other
storage solutions, we found Starboard Storage to be the best fit for managing
our data growth," said Rich Fox, system administrator at MBL. "As an administrator, I appreciate how
Starboard Storage sets the bar for consolidating and simplifying management of
mixed workload environments and delivering the industry’s best price for
performance. We are thrilled with the results we have seen so far and will be
adding on additional Starboard Storage capacity in the future."

Customer Benefits:

• Costs: by choosing the Starboard Storage solution, the MBL was able to
  save thousands of dollars in capital expenditures compared to other storage
  systems.
• Storage
  features: as its storage needs continue to evolve
  in the future, the MBL can manage workloads with Starboard software for
  thin-provisioning and replication of volumes and file shares across multiple
  protocols.
• Performance: Starboard outperformed the companies previous storage
  systems, while consolidating mixed workloads on a single platform.
• Scalability: The Starboard Storage MAST
  architecture enables the MBL to manage significant TB of expansion every year
  with no additional staff or software licenses required.

"Our Starboard AC72
Storage Systems tackle the toughest storage problems facing Small and Medium
Enterprise IT administrators today – the ability to manage mixed storage workloads,"
said Russell Wine, director of sales of Starboard Storage. "We take the guesswork out of having to
manually optimize storage performance -allowing companies like The Marine
Biological Laboratory, to concentrate on achieving higher-value business
objectives."