FileTek Showcases StorHouse for Life Sciences at Bio-IT World Conference and Expo '10
Conference Includes Special Session on StorHouse for Life Sciences Deployment at the National Institutes of Health
Rockville, Maryland – April 14, 2010 - FileTek, Inc., a pioneer developer of large-scale data management and information governance solutions, today announced it will participate in the vendor exhibits at the Bio-IT World Conference and Expo '10 on April 20-22, 2010, at the World Trade Center in Boston Massachusetts. FileTek will be located in booth 411. Exhibition hours are Wednesday, April 21 from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Thursday, April 22 from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. In addition to viewing vendor exhibits, conference registrants can attend half-day and full-day pre-conference workshops on April 20 as well as multiple conference presentations, which are divided into seven subject-area tracks. For more conference details and registration information, go to http://www.bio-itworldexpo.com/Bio-It_Expo_Content.aspx?id=94022.
This year's conference theme is "Enabling technology – Leveraging data – Transforming Medicine." To support this theme, Jacob Farmer, CTO of Cambridge Computer, a FileTek technology integrator partner, will present an informative presentation about how the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, is using StorHouse for Life Sciences as enabling technology for archiving, accessing, managing, and protecting all next generation genomic sequencing data funded by the Federal Government. Mr. Farmer's presentation is scheduled for Wednesday, April 21 at 3:15 p.m.What is StorHouse for Life Sciences?
StorHouse® for Life Sciences is a large-scale, storage virtualization and data management platform specifically engineered to administer the terabytes to petabytes of structured and unstructured fixed content generated by highly scalable and extremely dynamic life sciences applications. The product combines industry-leading traditional and alternative storage devices and open system processors with storage management, relational database management, and file system interface software components. No application program interfaces are required. StorHouse for Life Sciences supports the affordable scalability, sustained performance, automated system management capability, advanced storage virtualization technology, and long-term survivability that massive biomedical applications demand. The lack of these features could jeopardize research efforts and yield incomplete or faulty results.
Mark Seamans, FileTek CTO, commented, "We are looking forward to participating in Bio-IT World and to Jacob Farmer's session about StorHouse for Life Sciences at NIH. The NIH deployment is a perfect example of how StorHouse benefits public, private, and university research institutes and laboratories worldwide. We believe the product exceeds the stringent storage virtualization and data management requirements that large-scale biomedical applications demand, including cost-effective, long-term storage; performance and scalability; archive, access, and backup capabilities in a single system; complete data assurance; and critical process automation. We currently have a strong customer base and look forward to more system installations in the coming months."
About FileTek
FileTek, Inc. is a premier provider of large-scale data management and information governance solutions, enabling organizations, worldwide and across multiple industry segments, to efficiently manage, rapidly access, and effectively govern their ever-growing volume of enterprise data. Since 1984, FileTek has provided comprehensive, award-winning solutions to companies, prestigious educational institutions, and scientific and government agencies worldwide. From our patented and innovative StorHouse high-volume data management solutions to our Trusted Edge information classification and asset management software, FileTek maintains a steady focus: enhancing and automating information lifecycle management and data preservation processes for all categories and volumes of data. The company's website may be accessed at www.FileTek.com.
FileTek is headquartered at 9400 Key West Avenue, Rockville, MD 20850. Telephone: 301-251-0600. Fax: 301-251-1990. The FileTek international headquarters, FileTek Ltd, is located at One Northumberland Ave., London WC2N 5BW. Telephone: +44 (0) 207 872 5583. Fax: +44 (0) 207 753 2829. The company also has offices across North America.
About Cambridge Computer
Cambridge Computer provides professional services, sales, and education in the fields of storage networking, data protection, and digital preservation. Founded in 1991, Cambridge Computer is best known in the data storage industry for authoring best practices for enterprise backup and archiving, and for its role in defining use cases for next generation storage networking technologies. Cambridge Computer's clients span across all industries and range in size from small business to the Fortune 50. FileTek has partnered with Cambridge Computer to explore new markets, particularly in life sciences and higher education.
Diamond Lauffin, co-founder of Nexsan Technologies North America and a leading authority in the field of storage and storage systems will discuss the challenges, requirements and available technologies that are being implemented to successfully manage, archive, backup, and access this critical biomedical research information. The presentation will take place at "The Petabyte Challenge" - a conference focused on addressing the challenges associated with managing the explosion of research-related data. The conference is being presented by the Association of Independent Research Institutes (AIRI) and will be held on February 18th and 19th at the Salk Institute of Biological Studies in La Jolla, California.
Mr. Lauffin was directly involved in providing multi-petabyte solutions to organizations such as Fermi Labs and JPL/CalTech as well as many other University, Scientific and Commercial installations. Mr. Lauffin will be sharing his personal experience with the recent evaluation and roll-out of a multi-petabyte 'active archive' solution at a major national laboratory. The deployed solution serves as the core storage component for the capture and sharing of next-generation genomic sequencing information produced at numerous bioinformatic research facilities and centers throughout the United States. Furthermore, he will discuss their selection process and subsequent deployment process for the FileTek StorHouse® storage virtualization and data management system as an active archive, backup and redundant on-line, off-site secondary site solution for their 12-petabytes of research data.
Mr. Lauffin will illustrate how a cost livable and cost justifiable approach was deployed to support a combined total of 24-petabytes of synchronized, on-site, off-site, on-line managed data. While the example discussed in this session may appear unique, these same storage challenges and requirements confront industries and organizations of all sizes. Please join Mr. Lauffin for this informational and entertaining session.
