Case Study: Washington University in St. Louis achieves secure, scalable, cost-effective research data retention with Carahsoft and RackTop BrickStor

Washington University in St. Louis - Customer Case Study

Washington University in St. Louis operates a Biomedical Mass Spectrometry Resource that supports 100+ NIH-funded research projects and needed economical, scalable storage that ensured long-term retention, cross-platform access, and easy management without a dedicated storage administrator. To address these challenges, Washington University in St. Louis partnered with Carahsoft to deploy RackTop Systems’ BrickStor (1 x BrickStor TI-3201).

Carahsoft delivered the BrickStor solution with unified NFS/SMB access, inline lossless compression, 256-bit checksums, immutable snapshots, policy-driven versioning and cloud replication, plus myRack forecasting. The deployment simplified administration (no storage admin required), protected data integrity across 100+ projects, met the university’s RPOs, supported the five-year growth plan and stayed within budget — outcomes achieved through Carahsoft’s BrickStor implementation.

Washington University in St. Louis

Henry Rohrs

Staff Scientist