CSC Finland Acquires DDN SFA10K and Multi-PB TapelLibrary

DataDirect Networks, Inc. (DDN) has been
selected by the IT Center for Science
(CSC)

CSC is a non-profit company providing IT support and resources for academia
administered by the Finnish Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, to
design and build a massive, tiered storage system to scale with, and
accelerate, CSC’s customers’ data-driven research and the preservation of
cultural heritage.

"DDN’s award-winning
technology is equaled only by the insight and experience of our staff, who for
14 years have helped push the boundaries of computational science. Our company
was at the vanguard of the Big Data revolution long before the term ‘Big Data’
was even coined," said John Josephakis, SVP of Sales, High
Performance Computing and Life Sciences, DDN. "We are honored to have been selected by CSC to provide an integrated
storage solution as their Big Data agenda evolves the organization from
high-performance computing to data-intensive computing."

This four-year, multi-million Euro agreement includes an integrated
storage environment combining DDN’s massively scalable SFA10K storage
technology, a multi-PB tape library and automated data migration software
to simplify access to large scientific and cultural data sets across tiers of
cost-optimized storage resources. In building out its storage system, CSC
sought a partner with experience meeting the challenges of sustainable
scalability, including the environmental impact of the information production
chain and systems energy consumption.

"DDN’s solution gives CSC
the flexibility to best support and scale our user services," said
Kimmo Koski, MD and Chair of CSC. "Their
expertise in enabling organizations to manage the complexities of the Big Data
is a critical asset to our organization."

CSC provides Finland’s most powerful supercomputing resources, including Louhi
– CSC’s 1,344 processor system from Cray, and has been named by Top500.org as
one of the world’s 500 fastest supercomputer sites every year since Top500.org
was established in 1993.

Introduced in 1971, CSC provides expertise and
resources in the service of research, education and culture in Finland and
beyond. In 2010, CSC made a long-term commitment to social responsibility that
included environmental best practices for all its facilities.