Case Study: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute achieves flexible, secure genome research collaboration with Red Hat

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Supports Genome Breakthroughs with Red Hat

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, a global center for genomic discovery, needed a more flexible IT environment to support massive data analysis and collaboration across researchers, startups, and scientific partners. Its older clustered infrastructure could not easily provide secure, on-demand access to resources or support a new Science-as-a-Service model.

With help from Red Hat, the institute deployed Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat CloudForms, and Red Hat Consulting to build a hybrid cloud service catalog and unify management across environments. Red Hat enabled faster access to computing resources, improved collaboration and reproducibility, and provided expert implementation support; the platform now serves five tenants, with capacity including three petabytes of storage, 6,000 cores, and 100GbE networking, and is expected to expand to nine more tenants.

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

Tim Cutts

Acting Head of Scientific Computing