Case Study: Oregon State University accelerates life sciences research with Quobyte

Overcoming storage obstacles to continue the advancement of life sciences research

Oregon State University needed a storage solution that could handle petabyte-scale scientific data from its life sciences and wildlife research, while keeping costs down and simplifying operations across existing x86 infrastructure. The university’s team was struggling with massive datasets, cloud cost concerns, and storage systems that were difficult to install, manage, and scale.

Quobyte provided an on-premises unified storage platform that worked with standard servers and existing hardware, giving OSU cloud-like scalability without cloud egress and ingress costs. With Quobyte, a single person can manage the storage infrastructure, enabling faster deployment of user file space and tenancy, supporting up to 18PB of storage, and helping OSU focus more time on research while serving 26 departments and external organizations.

Oregon State University

Christopher Sullivan

Assistant Director for Biocomputing, Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing