Case Study: Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation achieves shared research storage and collaboration with OpenStack Swift

GETting Science & IT Together at OMRF with Swift

The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) faced growing research and business data storage needs, with different teams and labs managing their own storage. OMRF needed a way to quickly meet separate storage demands while also bringing together IT and research groups, using OpenStack Swift as the foundation for a shared storage approach.

OpenStack helped OMRF implement a single Swift cluster to support Commvault backup and genomic archive data, with encryption, capacity expansion, and offsite replication over secure links. The result was a CFO-approved, cost-effective model that improved collaboration across departments and even enabled new use cases beyond backup and archiving.

Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation