Penn Medicine Selecting FileTek StorHouse

FileTek,
Inc. announced that Penn Medicine has selected a
StorHouse data management system as the key component of it University of Pennsylvania Health System
(UPHS) Archive project.

Penn Medicine, recognized for its education and training
of physician-scientists and future leaders of academic medicine, will use
StorHouse to secure, protect, and provide access to its growing volume of
research and genomics data. By leveraging the StorHouse capability to intelligently
blend disk and tape as part of scaled-out NAS with the automated data and storage management features, it will
reduce storage management costs while ensuring information delivery to the
prominent research and user communities it serves.

"Penn
Medicine is committed to being at the forefront of new developments and
innovations in medical education and research. To continue meeting this
objective, we needed an innovative and cost-effective active archive strategy
that ensured fast access to our growing volume of research and genomics data,"
remarked Jason Hughes, director, research computing, Penn Medicine Academic
Computing Services, at Penn Medicine. "We
required a strategy that supported ease of use, simplified system
administration, scalability, ensured data integrity, HA, reduced
operational overhead, and fast, reliable – yet affordable – access to all
critical data."

"StorHouse
is a bright, new idea in intelligent storage management," commented
Gary Szukalski, president of FileTek. "The
system combines storage management, backup, and archive on a single unified
platform while providing enterprise-class data assurance and access and at the
lowest cost per TB of storage. Penn Medicine plans to leverage StorHouse
features to drive benefits to faculty and staff through an easy-to-use,
cost-effective, and reliable archiving solution. FileTek’s scalability provides
a platform by which the archive can expand and grow in both size and
capabilities as needed over time."