Case Study: The University of Queensland achieves dramatically faster neuroscience discoveries with Hitachi Vantara

How Hitachi Vantara Speeds Research for Queensland Brain Institute

The University of Queensland’s Queensland Brain Institute faced rapidly growing data volumes from imaging, genomics and simulations—one instrument can produce 7 TB/hour and researchers manage a 22 PB research data lake—creating an urgent need for higher-performance storage and networking. To address this, the institute turned to Hitachi Vantara, deploying Hitachi hybrid flash storage and Virtual Storage Platform systems (with Hitachi Accelerated Flash) alongside high-speed Brocade Fibre Channel networking to modernize its data center.

Hitachi Vantara’s storage arrays, paired with Brocade G620 16/32 Gb Fibre Channel switches, delivered a low-latency, high-throughput infrastructure that supports the 22 PB data lake and accelerates transfers from instruments to compute. The upgrade doubled effective throughput per port, dramatically cut analysis time—turning a clinical study that once took six months into a process that can be completed in about a week—and enabled faster discovery, more ambitious experiments, increased publications and improved competitiveness for grants.

The University of Queensland

Pankaj Sah

Director