IQVIA Deploys Spectra Logic StorCycle

Spectra Logic Corporation announced that its StorCycle Storage Lifecycle Management software was deployed by IQVIA, Inc. as part of an overall solution to enhance the organization’s ability to capture and preserve global healthcare data sets to achieve modern data science advancements.

IQVIA chose this solution consisting of 3 instances of  StorCycle storage lifecycle management software, 2 Spectra BlackPearl object storage platforms, and 2 Spectra Stack Tape Libraries with LTO-8 tape drives and media.

It fuses together advances in data science, technology and human science expertise to help the healthcare industry make better decisions and improve patient outcomes. Technology and data management are key to its mission of driving healthcare forward.

IQVIA started searching for a new data management and storage solution that could help them better unite data between locations and make data available as needed. The solution needed to integrate with their existing infrastructure and allow for minimal disruptions as they gradually transitioned to a new workflow.

“Our goal was to deploy a data management and storage strategy that would enable us to connect data across multiple sites,” said Lucus Johnson, IQVIA., technology department. “Spectra’s total solution, which includes StorCycle, provides the insight into our data that we need to make better storage management decisions, helping us scale our storage capacity on a lower cost tier, and freeing up space on our primary storage by moving unused data to an archive infrastructure.“

Spectra Solution
It migrates IQVIA’s data across multiple storage devices while maintaining fast access for users. When data is identified for archiving, StorCycle moves the data to BlackPearl units.The BlackPearl systems write data to the Spectra Stack tape libraries in an open format. It also enables bi-directional data synchronization between the organizations 2 primary data centers – one in New Jersey, USA, and another in Dublin, Ireland. This data replication mitigates disruptions to workflows, maintains data availability and ensures that IQVIA’s assets are preserved in case of disaster or data corruption. Ultimately, IQVIA’s solution offers the scalability they need for the future while increasing storage capacity on their primary system by moving unused but still valuable data to the archive infrastructure for cost-effective digital preservation.

Case study: IQVIA enables modern data science advancements by capturing global healthcare data sets with the help of Spectra StorCycle.