Case Study: University of Alabama at Birmingham achieves scalable, cost-effective research storage with Red Hat

University of Alabama at Birmingham Expands Research Storage with Red Hat

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) needed to expand storage for its fast-growing research workloads in areas like genomics, neuroimaging, and molecular modeling as data volumes surged and its cluster began running out of capacity. UAB turned to Red Hat, using Red Hat Ceph Storage on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, to support a more flexible, cost-effective, and scalable storage environment for researchers.

With Red Hat, UAB implemented a software-defined storage platform that could scale by adding standard servers, support block, object, and file storage, and maintain reliable cluster performance without downtime. The result was an 11-fold increase in processing power for its HPC environment, lower storage costs through a shared-cost model, and on-demand capacity growth that enabled new research opportunities and easier pursuit of grants.

University of Alabama at Birmingham

John-Paul Robinson

Research Software Architect