You will probably read a bit more of this announcement, which hits business wires today, in the popular trade press rags, but I wanted to get it out here first. Johns Hopkins’ Center for Inherited Disease Research, leveraging the work of the Human Genome Project, is using Caringo’s content addressable storage (CAS) software to index all of the files (and we are talking up to PBs in the near future) that are being created in connection with its efforts.
You can read the details of the solution – the use of Capricorn’s PetaBoxes (low cost, no frills, SATA arrays), combined with home grown archive software and Caringo software — in my article in ESJ.com in the next week or so. The IT guy I chatted with yesterday said that Caringo’s method of indexing and spreading data in a cluster has saved his butt several times when disk failures and power outages impacted his operations.
It’s a great story and a great win for Caringo.
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