Case Study: Prognosys Biosciences achieves reliable biotechnology data protection with Zmanda

Zmanda protects biotechnology data

Prognosys Biosciences, a biotechnology company in La Jolla, CA, needed a reliable way to protect massive amounts of sequencing and analysis data stored across its Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, and Windows environment. The company evaluated backup options for its raw and dynamic genomic data and chose zmanda’s Amanda Enterprise Backup Server and Solaris Client to safeguard critical data from equipment failure and other risks.

zmanda implemented and remotely installed the backup solution, helped resolve network issues, increased bandwidth between servers, and wrote automation scripts to support raw-data backups. As a result, Prognosys has backed up about 20TB, improved server load and bandwidth, reduced weekly full backup time to about seven hours, and gained easier restore and web-based monitoring for non-technical staff.

Prognosys Biosciences

Dr. Mike Thompson

Prognosys