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CDC Delivers 21st-Century Health Detection

In a race to fight COVID-19, the CDC accelerated its genetic sequencing workloads from days to minutes with Pure Storage®.

Summary

Delivering a 21st-century health detection and surveillance system is about putting science and advanced technology into action to prevent disease. To achieve that, the CDC needs the data speed and turnaround times to support rapid, high-performance data analyses. Departments across the CDC now rely on Pure Storage to support their data workloads.

Industry

Government

GEO

North America

Use Cases

Accelerate Core Applications
Activate Real Time Analytics

Website

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G.O.A.T. - North America - CDC

For potentially saving countless lives and leading the United States’ fight against infectious diseases, the CDC wins this year’s Pure Storage Greatest of All Time Award.

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Challenges

When COVID-19 hit, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) found itself in a race against time. The ability to process data quickly became a matter of life and death. The CDC’s genomic surveillance efforts have sped up dramatically since reimagining its storage environment, with sequencing workloads that used to take days now taking just minutes.

Results

Business Transformation

Helps the CDC to intervene sooner, save lives, and reduce illness
Aids in the development of life-saving vaccines and improves food safety
Supports data workloads for departments across the CDC

IT Transformation

Sequencing workloads that used to take days now take just minutes
Enables array upgrades with zero interruption to its data-driven operations
Reduced storage footprint in its data center from three racks to half a rack

“Together, we built a storage environment that could support bioinformatics analysis and Nextflow-based workflow management while ensuring ease of use, simplicity, and availability. Our goal is to deliver the fastest storage, fastest compute times, and fastest way for researchers to get their work done.”

Vernard Martin

Senior Solutions Architect, Leidos (CDC partner)

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