Velocity delivers huge time and cost savings by massively improving utilization of existing bandwidth between research data centers.
Using Velocity improves cost and performance
The need to transfer large research data sets grow every day. Research models are now big enough to be in the TBs (Terabytes) in size, making them difficult to transfer in a timely manner between research facilities and HPCCs (High Performance Computing Centers)
A large medical research facility in Southern California faced this capacity issue in transferring large blocks of genome research between data centers.
The Issues that needed addressing:
- Even with a dedicated GbE line, full transfers were taking close to 24 hours each.
- Breakdowns in transmission required the entire process to start over, losing entire days of productivity.
This client reaped two main benefits using Velocity to transfer large blocks of research data:
- Speed, 100% Data Delivery Guarantee, Security
- Velocity allowed the data to transfer in 90 minutes rather than 23 hours, a time savings of over 15x, allowing data to be available for analysis in a fifteenth of the time.
- Velocity’s embedded MD5 checksum capability guaranteed that the data that arrived was 100% the data sent. If a transmission failed mid-flight, Velocity picked up where the break occurred, eliminating start-overs.
- Patent-pending encryption algorithms secured the data in flight.
- Cost Savings
- With a Velocity license at each end of a GbE dedicated line between collaborating data centers, IT managers saved money by avoiding expensive upgrades to the line to keep up with the terabytes of data they needed to transfer.