Case Study: Altius Institute accelerates genomic research with Igneous Data Protection as-a-Service

Altius Institute Accelerates Medical Breakthroughs with Igneous Data Protection as-a-Service

Altius Institute, an independent biomedical research organization, faced a significant challenge in protecting and managing nearly a petabyte of rapidly growing research data. Their legacy replication strategy was operationally intensive and posed a severe risk of permanent data loss, which threatened their groundbreaking work in genomics and drug discovery. Seeking a scalable and simple solution, Altius chose Igneous and its DataProtect as-a-Service to modernize its data protection.

The solution from Igneous provided a hands-off, automated approach to backup, drastically reducing complexity and administrative overhead. This allowed the Altius team to focus entirely on research instead of infrastructure management. The implementation was seamless, and the service's data compression significantly reduced storage needs. Furthermore, Igneous provided a future-proof platform for programmatic data distribution to research partners, eliminating operational risk and preventing the need for additional IT hires despite anticipated data growth.

Altius Institute

Michael Cockrill

Chief Technology Officer