WuXi NextCODE Works with NetApp Cloud Volumes to Support Genomic Health Solutions
October 23, 2018
The world’s leading platform for genomic data, available in multiple
cloud environments, can now process even more genomes, simultaneously
LAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP), empowering its customers to change the world with
data, today announced a partnership with WuXi
NextCODE, the world’s leading genomic data platform and analysis
company, working to improve health for people around the globe. WuXi
NextCODE will use NetApp®
Cloud Volumes for simplified deployment and optimized management of
data-driven applications. WuXi NextCODE operates in an integrated,
multicloud environment for storing genomic data and doing secondary
processing and clinical applications for their customers. NetApp Cloud
Volumes is designed to process orders of magnitude more data
simultaneously and to analyze vast volumes of data in real time.
WuXi NextCODE offers a unique platform designed specifically to
organize, mine, share, and apply genomic data to improve human health.
The company’s AI-enabled toolset is built to efficiently analyze massive
amounts of genomic and clinical data to deliver both clinical and
research insights.
WuXi NextCODE has to keep pace with the burgeoning number of genomes it
sequences and stores for its customers every day. After evaluating
multiple cloud storage offerings, the company chose to use the NetApp
Cloud Volumes solution because of its scalability and ease of deployment
and management. NetApp Cloud Volumes is integrated with all major cloud
providers, such as Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform. This
multicloud strategy helps WuXi NextCODE maintain a data architecture
that supports powerful analytics with elastic scalability, pipeline
flexibility, and integration into existing customer systems, more
quickly and more reliably.
“A scalable and easily deployable storage system is the foundation for a
platform like ours, which serves millions of genomes while providing a
network effect and knowledge base that continually attracts more users
and more data,” said Hakon Gudbjartsson, CIO, WuXi NextCODE.
NetApp Cloud Volumes users, such as WuXi NextCODE, can easily set up and
configure a highly scalable “HPC-like” storage infrastructure in the
cloud. Furthermore, advanced storage management features, such as
real-time mirroring by using NetApp SnapMirror® data replication
software, greatly eases deployment and testing, resulting in a more
stable and reliant platform, which is of great importance to WuXi
NextCODE’s customers in research, the pharmaceutical and biotech
industries, and clinical environments.
“Data services in the cloud are doing more than driving business
innovation, they are impacting society at large,” said Anthony Lye, SVP
and GM Cloud Data Services at NetApp. “Our work with WuXi NextCODE is a
testament to how we help high-performance companies to thrive in a
multicloud environment. NetApp Cloud Volumes has partnerships with the
biggest public clouds, giving users the ability to bring their data to
the doorstep of industry-leading public cloud services and to respond
faster to market changes and customer demands.”
Looking to the future, NetApp and WuXi NextCODE will continue to
collaborate on additional tools, capabilities, and APIs to serve the
growing data volumes from the global genomics community, presenting a
model for how advanced data companies will change the world with data.
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