Dell aims for DNA sequencing advancements with unstructured data storage

#DellTechnologies has announced the latest addition to its #Isilon family, an all-flash scale-out network-attached storage (NAS) system offering up to 92.4 petabytes of storage capacity and up to 25M IOPS and 1.5TB per second of bandwidth, designed to handle next-generation applications and unstructured workloads. Speaking at the inaugural #Dell #EMC World in Austin, Texas, senior vice president and general manager of Isilon Phil Bullinger said there are a number of vertical markets the organisation believes the Isilon all-flash is going to have a significant impact in, with life sciences -- in particular, DNA sequencing -- one of the markets he is most excited about. "None of this matters unless we're actually doing something with it," he said. "We think it's going to be transformational." Bullinger explained that with DNA sequencing comes mountains of unstructured data, with datacentres at capacity trying to keep up.

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