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1. Spend Less Time Managing Your Storage and More
Time Solving Scientific and Business Challenges
The challenges facing life science organizations range
from explosive data growth and skyrocketing costs to
an increasingly complex research and development
cycle. All have created unprecedented demands on IT
infrastructures. As a result, these organizations can no
longer afford to ignore the cost of storage ownership in
their quest for successful but cost-effective discovery-
to-market strategies.
Face Data Challenges of Life Science Organizations
With Next-Generation Hitachi Unified Storage
SOLUTIONPROFILE
Life science organizations face a mounting data
challenge that is driving up complexity and costs.
The growing utilization of sequencing technologies
that produce massive amounts of data is only part
of the challenge. Data requirements for successful
compound discovery, clinical trials and new drug
applications are driving a steady increase in the
volume of scientific data that is being generated and
utilized for analysis and interpretation. And finally, pre-
vailing wisdom indicates the more data you have, the
more likely you are to be able to extract something
useful out of it; therefore, data-intensive life science
organizations often take the safer route of simply
storing all of it.
At the same time, these research-based organizations
are under constant pressure to find efficiencies and cost
savings that will support their competitive and business
goals. It is these challenges that are forcing most of
today’s life science organizations to re-evaluate their data
management infrastructures to determine how they can
drive scientific and business innovation.

2. SOLUTION PROFILE
IT budgets for the typical life science organization are
estimated to consume nearly 15% of the total research and
development expenditure. This high level of investment,
while perhaps essential, does not always move the
organization closer to its core mission of drug discovery
and development.
At the Center of the Life
Sciences Data Challenge
Advances in sequencing technologies are
presenting IT professionals with a number of
challenges related to storing, managing and
providing access to scientific and business
data. With a wide and growing availability
of IT applications generating record levels
of scientifically relevant data, research-
driven organizations are facing data that is
increasing both in complexity and volume.
This exponential growth curve is expected
to continue; in fact, genomic data alone is
doubling every 12 months. In addition to this,
there is a wealth of available “big genom-
ics” databases and networks, available at
low cost or even no cost. From a scientific
perspective, this creates huge opportunities
for new compound delivery; however, it also
creates enormous challenges related to the
efficient and cost-effective management of
this trove of data.
Data retention is also at the center of the
data challenge. Official retention policies
vary from a few years to 15 years or more.
In the life science industry, however, per-
haps more than anywhere else, data is
considered the most valuable of assets.
It is considered part of the data manage-
ment infrastructure, forever. Maintaining the
health of the business as well as the health
and well-being of patients depends on the
integrity of data. New drug registration and
marketing approval is based on the data
that is provided to the health authorities.
The adequacy and the quality of consumer
products are supported by the documen-
tation produced and retained. And finally,
there is no way to estimate what data will
be valuable when, so retaining everything,
potentially forever, has become a scientific
and business necessity.
The Next Generation of
Hitachi Unified Storage
Hitachi Unified Storage (HUS) 100 family
and NAS gateway technology create a
new unified midrange storage platform
for all data. Built with trusted Hitachi reli-
ability, this family helps research-based IT
organizations implement a centralized yet
scalable infrastructure in an environment
characterized by explosive data growth,
high-performance applications and new
data retention strategies.
Hitachi has combined our leading block
technology with the storage technology
from BlueArc to deliver unified storage that
will meet high-level performance metrics.
These may include increased retrieval
speed rates, reduced support and facil-
ity costs, and improved scalability and
organizational flexibility. Life science IT
organizations will be able to deploy a stor-
age infrastructure strategy that will easily
grow to meet expanding requirements and
ensure service level agreements for critical
scientific and business applications are
met. At the same time, they can reduce the
environmental complexity with an intuitive
centralized management system.
The evolution of sequencing technologies
and the availability of a growing amount
of genomics-based research data are not
the sole drivers of change in life science
IT organizations. Costs have become an
important driver as research and devel-
opment investment levels spiral out of
control. Successful delivery of a consum-
able product may represent more than a
decade of research and development and
a billion dollars of investment. Thus, orga-
nizations are looking at their IT strategy
as one way to reduce costs and maintain
profits, while also playing an integral part
in optimizing research and development
cycles. These new business realities require
a new method of IT prioritization focused on
reducing costs while improving efficiencies
and outcomes.

3. Best-in-Class Performance
and Scalability
In the life sciences domain, rapid advance-
ment in next-generation sequencing
instruments, imaging systems, simulations
and discovery-to-market processes are
generating vast data sets. These data sets
need to be analyzed effectively to create
new knowledge. Identifying critical inter-
actions between many variables is a key
problem in many applications. At the same
time, this can be paralyzing to both data
storage and processing.
The newest in the Hitachi Unified Storage
100 family and NAS gateway technology
offers the highest in availability and perfor-
mance, so you can meet service levels with
less risk. HUS 100 family consolidates both
file and block data. It scales up capacity,
performance and connectivity, and mini-
mizes copies, reduces size and provides
business-view reporting. The next gener-
ation in Hitachi Unified Storage delivers 4
times the capacity scalability and up to 50%
more IOPS performance. These improve-
ments enable organizations struggling with
data growth challenges to grow block vol-
umes and file systems dynamically, without
concerns to size limits. The next generation
in unified storage also delivers up to 90%
more efficiency with fewer disks and accel-
erated flash-based performance, which is
ideal for most data heavy environments.
With the highest reliability, HUS 100 family
ensures data is tamperproof, offers remote
management, updates without interrup-
tion, and provides dynamic load balancing
controllers. The business results include
99.999% availability, increased useful life of
assets, data migration without impact, and
protection and security for your most valu-
able research and business data.
For life science organizations, the benefits
of Hitachi Unified Storage 100 family can
become part of a performance and effi-
ciency strategy. This strategy is enabled
by a unified data management technology
that grows with your business and scien-
tific needs. It offers more usable capacity,
which allows you to defer additional pur-
chases, and will quickly share scientific and
business data among departments and
researchers.
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Reduce the Cost of the
Discovery-to-Market
Process: Begin in IT
Life science organizations face extreme
revenue pressure from the combined
impact of long research and development
cycles and growing competitive landscape.
At the same time, their pipeline for new
blockbuster products looks uncertain.
Furthermore, the costs and risks to dis-
covering new drugs are growing, driven by
increasingly complex and costly regulatory
approval processes and by a need to invest
in more complicated targets and therapies.
The average cost to market is US$1 bil-
lion, and growing, and development cycle
averages 12 to 15 years. As a result, the
life science industry is rethinking many
traditional business practices, including IT
strategies, as a way to reduce total costs.
The next-generation Hitachi Unified Storage
100 family and NAS gateway technology
enable extensive cost savings through
file and block consolidation. With accel-
erated deduplication, the next-generation
HUS delivers up to 90% more capacity,
which, in turn, can defer or reduce future
storage purchases. With its single com-
mand module, HUS 100 family is simpler
to manage and requires less training. It
is designed to offer low-cost installation,
automated operations and high-density
packaging, which result in reduced admin-
istration requirements and a lower cost of
operation. For the life sciences data center,
a unified storage strategy means less physi-
cal floor space with reduced energy per unit
of storage to sustain.

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Improve Return on Investment
and Time to Market With
Cloud Computing
The cloud brings speed and instant avail-
ability of resources, and it is rapidly growing
in importance as life science organizations
face an increasing deluge of data. Limited
funding and budgets make it difficult for
many organizations to build the infrastruc-
ture necessary to keep pace with these
challenges. Cloud computing is becoming
more compelling for life sciences today to
meet challenges associated with regulatory
compliance, IT agility and business and
scientific innovation. As a result, adoption
is now trending upwards as a method of
improving scientific outcomes at the lowest
possible cost.
While still in the early adoption stage, life
science organizations are quickly realizing
that there are many benefits to embrac-
ing this new technology paradigm. These
benefits may include enhanced scalability
and agility, improved IT economics and
data security, and a heightened ability to
respond to diverse business requirements
and implement services that support
the business and scientific needs of the
organization.
Hitachi Unified Storage 100 family supports
a cloud architecture from edge to core with
a common management interface into all
storage. It provides the performance and
capacity scalability, as well as higher data
efficiency required to build a cloud environ-
ment that can address service level needs
at a pace that makes sense to your orga-
nization. HUS 100 family lets you design
an integrated infrastructure that is secure,
reliable, scalable and agile to support your
application storage services. Reporting
tools help you keep on top of performance
and utilization to meet service level agree-
ments. Unifying block and file centralize
your management and consolidate plat-
forms in your storage architecture. Connect
local and central sites and secure privacy
among your staff or data sources.
A unified data management strategy is a
key component to supporting research and
commercialization success while maximiz-
ing the productivity of both IT and research
resources. The benefits that can be deliv-
ered from a unified architecture include:
■■ Increased performance metrics, includ-
ing up to 20% more throughput and
improved retrieval speed rates.
■■ Improved scalability of converged infra-
structure components, which gives you
the flexibility to meet current requirements
and prepare for future needs.
■■ Advanced management, which lets
you deliver storage service levels when,
where and how you need them.
■■ Reduced business and research risk
thanks to minimized downtime.
■■ Support for you to build a cloud envi-
ronment at your own pace that best
addresses your needs and protects your
existing investments.
■■ Deep integration across Hitachi
Command Suite for the highest level of
operational efficiency.
For More Information
To learn more about how Hitachi Unified
Storage 100 family can help you spend less
time managing your storage and more time
solving scientific and business challenges,
please contact your Hitachi Data Systems
representative or visit www.HDS.com.