Case Study: PacBio accelerates genomic workflows with VAST Data

PacBio Accelerating Genomic Discovery with VAST Data

PacBio, a leader in long-read DNA sequencing, was facing significant challenges managing the petabyte-scale data generated from developing and manufacturing its instruments like the Revio system. Their legacy infrastructure led to bottlenecks, slow data transfers for geographically distributed teams, and an inability to scale efficiently. They sought a high-performance, scalable solution with a single namespace across multiple protocols to replace their disparate systems and turned to vendor VAST Data for its DataStore platform.

VAST Data implemented a unified data platform that provided a global namespace supporting S3, NFS, and SMB protocols. This solution allowed PacBio to transfer data from its instruments eight times faster and cut multi-terabyte manufacturing data transfers from days to just hours using parallel S3 commands. The platform consolidated legacy storage systems, reliably scaled by an additional 2PB with no issues, and accelerated HPC and deep learning workloads, significantly improving time to results for their research and development teams.

PacBio

Adam Knight

Director of IT Infrastructure