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1 DDN Case Study Accelerate > Collaborative Research Infrastructure Deployments University College London Transforms Research Collaboration and Data Preservation with Scalable Cloud Object Storage Appliance from DDN 2013 DataDirect Networks. All Rights Reserved
2 University College London University College London (UCL), ranked consistently as one of the top five universities in the world, is London s leading multidisciplinary university with more than 10,000 staff, over 26,000 students as well as more than 100 departments, institutes and research centers. With 25 Nobel Prize winners and three Fields medalists among UCL s alumni and staff, the university has attained a world-class reputation for the quality of its teaching and research across the academic spectrum. As London s premier research institution, UCL has 5,000 researchers committed to applying their collective strengths, insights and creativity to overcome problems of global significance. The university s innovative, cross-disciplinary research agenda is designed to deliver immediate, medium- and long-term benefits to humanity. UCL Grand Challenges, which encompass Global Health, Sustainable Cities, Intercultural Interaction and Human Wellbeing, are a central feature of the university s research strategy. According to Dr. J. Max Wilkinson, Head of Research Data Services for the UCL Information Services Division, sharing and preserving project-based research results is essential to the scientific method. I was brought in to provide researchers with a safe and resilient solution for storing, sharing, reusing and preserving project-based data, he explains. Our goal is to remove the burden of managing project data from individual researchers while making it more available over longer periods of time DataDirect Networks. All Rights Reserved 2
3 Challenges Improve the sharing & access of project-based research Transition the IT responsibilities from research teams back to IT Address the rapid growth of data, in both volume and velocity Comply with funding agencies data preservation regulations Avoid proprietary architectures and vendor lock-in Source an end-to-end solution with flexible, highly scalable architecture We had a simple services proposition that would eliminate the need for research teams to manage racks of servers and data storage devices. Of course, this meant we d need a highly scalable storage infrastructure that could grow to 100 PBs without creating a large storage footprint or excessive administrative overhead. Dr. J. Max Wilkinson Head of Research Data Services for University College London s Information Services Division The Challenge The opportunity to improve the sharing and access of project-based research presented several unique technical and cultural challenges. On the technical side, the team had to accommodate a variety of different types of data, growing in volume and velocity. In some cases, a small amount of data is so valuable to a research team that six discrete copies were retained on separate USB drives or removable hard drives kept in different locations. In other instances, UCL researchers produce copious amounts of very well-defined data that pass between compute algorithms under which research sits. In addition to solving technical problems, the research data services team was faced with the opportunity to support researchers in a new data-intensive world by making it safe and easy to follow best practices in data management and use best-of-class storage solutions. We discovered the valuable data underpinning most research projects were stuck on a hard drives or disk, never to be seen again, adds Wilkinson. If we could provide a framework over which people could share and preserve data confidently, we could minimize this behavior and improve research by making the scholarly record more complete. To accomplish this, UCL needed to provide an enterprise-class foundation for data manipulation that met the needs of its diverse user community. While some researchers thought 100 GBs was a large amount of data, others clamored for more than 100 TBs to support a particular project. There was also an expectation that up to 3,000 individuals from UCL s total base of 5,000 active researchers and collaborators would require services within the next 18-to-24 months. We had a simple services proposition that would eliminate the need for research teams to manage racks of servers and data storage devices, says Wilkinson. Of course, this meant we d need a highly scalable storage infrastructure that could grow to 100 PBs without creating a large storage footprint or excessive administrative overhead. Additionally, they had to address long-term data retention needs that extended well beyond the realm of research projects. UCL, 2013 DataDirect Networks. All Rights Reserved 3
4 along with many other UK research intensive institutes, is faced with increasingly stringent requirements for the management of project data outputs by UK Research Councils and other funding bodies in the United Kingdom. As grant funding in the UK supports best practice, it was critical to have a proven data management plan that documented how UCL would preserve data for sometimes decades while ensuring maximum appropriate access and reuse by third parties. Solution From 22 RFP respondents, UCL selected DDN GRIDScaler + WOS This end-to-end File Storage & Object Storage solution enabled IT to consolidate & take-back responsibility for infrastructure GRIDScaler File Storage provided the high performance and low latency required for their HPC applications WOS Object Storage provided virtually unlimited scalability compared to NAS & SAN & out-of-the-box global and local collaboration The DDN solution was open, with one source of support and provided management simplicity The Solution In seeking a scalable, resilient storage foundation, UCL issued an RFP to solicit insight on different approaches for consolidating the university s research data storage infrastructure. Each of the 21 RFP respondents was asked to provide examples of large-scale deployments, which produced far-ranging answers, including how providers addressed sheer data volume, reduced increasingly complex environments or delivered overarching data management frameworks. UCL s RFP covered a diverse set of requirements to determine each potential solution provider s respective strengths and limitations. We asked for more than we thought possible from a single vendor from a synchronous file sharing to a high performance parallel file system, highly scalable, resilient storage that would be simple to manage, notes Daniel Hanlon, Storage Architect for Research Data Services at University College London. We wanted to cover our bases while determining what was practical and doable for researchers. Recommendations encompassed a broad storage spectrum, including NAS, SAN, HSM, object storage, asset management solutions and small amounts of spinning disks with lots of backend tape. Because we had such broad requirements, we omitted any vendor that was bound to a particular hardware platform, explains Wilkinson. It was important to be both data and storage agnostic so we would have the flexibility to support all data and media types without being locked into any particular hardware platform DataDirect Networks. All Rights Reserved 4
5 For 2013, IDC anticipates object storage growing faster than any other segment in the file-and-object storage market. A driver in the growth of private cloud adoption is the control over data security and resiliency users get compared to public clouds. As more companies look at object storage for collaborative file sharing, archive and backup, IDC is seeing an acceleration in cloud adoption. UCL is a great example of this mainstream private cloud adoption of object storage for collaborative file sharing. Ashish Nadkarni Research Director, IDC With its ability to support virtually unlimited scalability, object storage appealed to UCL, especially since it also would be much easier to manage than alternatives. Still, object storage was seen as a relatively new technology and UCL lacked hands-on experience with large-scale deployments within the university s ecosystem. In addition to evaluating the different technologies, UCL also assessed each provider s understanding of their environment, as it was critically important to accommodate UCL s researcher requirements in order to drive acceptance. Some of the RFP respondents didn t understand the difference between the corporate and academic worlds, and the fact that universities by nature generally have to avoid being tied into particular closed technologies, adds Hanlon. Many of the RFP respondents were eliminated, not because of their technical response, but because they didn t really get what we were trying to do. As a result, the universe of prospective solutions was reduced to a half-dozen recommendations. As the team took a closer look at the finalists, they considered each vendor s academic track record, ability to scale without overburdening administrators and experience with open-source technology. We wanted to work with a storage solutions provider that took advantage of open-source solutions, Hanlon notes. This would enable us to partner with them and also with other academic institutions trying to do similar things. In the final analysis, UCL wanted a partner with equal enthusiasm for freeing researchers from the burden of data storage so they could maximize the impact of their projects. We were very interested in building a relationship with a strong storage partner to fill our technology gap, says Wilkinson. After a thorough assessment, DataDirect Networks (DDN) met our technical requirements and shared our data storage vision. In evaluating DDN, we agreed that their solution had a simple proposition, high performance and low administration overhead DataDirect Networks. All Rights Reserved 5
6 The proposed solution, which included DDN TM GRIDScaler TM massively scalable parallel file system and Web Object Scaler (WOS ), also provided the desired scalability and management simplicity. Another plus for WOS storage was its tight integration with the Integrated Rule-Oriented Data Management Solution (irods). This opensource solution is ideally suited for research collaboration by making it easier to organize, share and find collections of data stored in local and remote repositories. It was important that DDN s solution gave us multiple ways to access the same storage, so we could be compatible with existing application codes, says Hanlon. The tendency with other solutions was to give us bits of technology that had been developed in different spaces and that didn t really fit our problem DataDirect Networks. All Rights Reserved 6
7 Benefits Increases performance AND cost savings, while simplifying their environment Deployed a collaborative platform to accelerate research workflows and time-to-discovery Highest storage density enables future scalability within their expensive, limited downtown London floorspace Extends data durability and protection of research to comply with regulatory requirements Seamlessly expands to handle the demands of Big Data from 500TB to 100PB The Benefits During a successful pilot implementation involving a half-petabyte of storage, UCL gained first-hand insight into the advantage of DDN s turnkey distributed storage and collaboration solution. The main attraction of DDN WOS is the combination of an efficient object store with edge appliances to ease integration with other storage infrastructure, says Hanlon. Another big plus for UCL is DDN s high-density storage capacity, which will enable fitting a lot more disks into existing storage racks, which is crucial to growing while maintaining a small footprint in UCL s highly-congested, expensive downtown London location. As researchers are often reluctant to give up control of their data storage solutions, the team also has been pleased to discover early adopters who see the value of using the new service to protect and preserve current data assets. In fact, the new research data service already is getting high marks for performance reliability, data durability, data backup and disaster recovery capabilities. UCL predicts that as traction for the new service increases, there will be greater interest in leveraging it to further extend how current research is reused and exploited to drive more impactful outcomes. By taking this innovative approach, the UCL Research Data Services team is embracing the open data movement while enlisting leading-edge technologies to deliver reliable, flexible data access that maximizes appropriate sharing and re-use of research data. Additionally, UCL is taking the researcher worry of meeting increasingly strong expectations from funding organizations out of the storage equation with its plans to add a scalable archive to its dynamic storage service offering. We ll be able to tell researchers that if they use our services, they ll be compliant with UCL, UK Research Council and other UK and international funding bodies policies and requirements, Wilkinson says. They won t have to worry about it because we will DataDirect Networks. All Rights Reserved 7
8 By providing a framework over which UCL researchers can store and share data confidently, UCL expects to achieve significant bottom-line cost savings. Early projections around the initial phase of the infrastructure build out are upwards of hundreds of thousands of UK pounds, simply by eliminating the need for thousands of researchers to attain and maintain their own storage hardware. DDN is empowering us to deliver performance and cost savings through a dramatically simplified approach; in doing so we support UCL researchers, their collaborators and partners to maintain first class research at London s global university, concludes Wilkinson. Add in the fact that DDN s resilient, extensible storage solution provided evidence of seamless expansion from a half-petabyte to 100 PBs, and we found exactly the foundation we were looking for. DDN About Us DataDirect Networks (DDN) is the world leader in massively scalable storage. Our data storage and processing solutions and professional services enable content-rich and high growth IT environments to achieve the highest levels of systems scalability, efficiency and simplicity. DDN enables enterprises to extract value and deliver business results from their information. Our customers include the world's leading online content and social networking providers, high performance cloud and grid computing, life sciences, media production, and security and intelligence organizations. Deployed in thousands of mission critical environments worldwide, DDN's solutions have been designed, engineered and proven in the world's most scalable data centers to ensure competitive business advantage for today's information powered enterprise. For more information, go to www. or call , DataDirect Networks, Inc. All Rights Reserved. DataDirect Networks, the DataDirect Networks logo, GRIDScaler, Storage Fusion Architecture, SFA, Web Object Scaler, & WOS are trademarks of DataDirect Networks. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. V1 5/ DataDirect Networks. All Rights Reserved 8
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