Life Sciences CSP Validated Cloud Chooses Cloudian Object Storage Plaform

Cloudian, Inc. announced that Validated Cloud, Inc., a CSP in the life sciences industry, has introduced a service offering based on its HyperStore object storage platform.

The service, GxP S3 Simple Storage Service, leverages HyperStore’s limitless scalability, military-grade security and native S3 compatibility to meet Validated Cloud customers’ needs for fully compliant data management and protection, including data archive and data lake use cases.

Founded in 2011, Validated Cloud helps emerging clinical stage to mid-sized life sciences companies accelerate the deployment of validated systems on a compliant platform with all the features and benefits of the big pharma companies – and at a fraction of the cost of a do-it-yourself project. Over the past year, it has seen increased customer demand for storage solutions that would support the growing ecosystem of S3-compatible applications. In response, it began looking for a storage provider that could help it address this demand.

“As we do for any major technology purchase decision, we developed an extensive set of selection criteria,” said Doug Lantigua, co-founder, Validated Cloud. “After conducting a thorough evaluation of different solutions, we found that Cloudian best met the criteria.“

Key benefits included highly secure multi-tenancy and the ability to manage the environment separately from how users access it.

“It fit our security model very well and plugged in directly to the way we already work,” said Lantigua.

Validated Cloud deployed a petabyte scale HyperStore solution across 2 data centers for its GxP S3 Simple Storage Service, compliant with US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), European Medicines Agency (EMA) and UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) standards.

The service provides storage for GxP data use cases, including:

• GxP/Validated Data Archive
• GxP/Validated Data Lake
• Validated Clinical Data sharing between sponsors and contract research organizations
• Offsite storage for GxP lab and manufacturing data
• GxP storage for validated next-gen sequencing (NGS) data

“Cloudian gives us a modern storage foundation fully under our control, which is essential when it comes to the data we manage,” says Lantigua. “We’re looking forward to bringing the benefits of our Cloudian-based GxP S3 service to our customers.“

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