NetApp provides data infrastructure for EMBL

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The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) is running a data lake across two datacentre sites, based on NetApp storage, to support scientific research. Modern scientific research is heavily dependent on big data analysis and increasingly relies on artificial intelligence (AI)-based methods. EMBL’s research groups develop their own AI models, which are trained and operated with Jupyter notebooks in container-based environments. Rupert Lueck, head of IT at EMBL, said the lab runs huge experiments at its imaging and sequencing centres using high-end electron microscopes. Lueck added: “We need to ensure data is stored redundantly and can be provisioned very fast using a storage grid.”

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