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Around 2008 it became clear that the rapid growth in both the size and complexity of EMBL-EBI’s data archives required a bespoke, in-house, software-defined object storage solution to ensure its availability, accessibility and recoverability, and the EMBL-EBI FIRE (File Replication) archive…
Migrating to the cloud has always proven problematic for the life science research community due to the need to access huge data-sets spread across different storage types in different locations, from a variety of different cloud environments. These use cases were the primary reason why, in 2016,…
With the continued growth of data at EMBL-EBI, the Systems Infrastructure team within the Technical Services Cluster has been looking to alleviate the capacity pressures on some of our increasingly overloaded storage systems. Due to the number of users and the frequency of use, it is critical…