Technology agreement sees the integration of something called a 'knowledge engineering system' with something else called a 'content addressed storage solution'
Scientific Software has announced it has entered into a technology agreement with EMC to integrate its CyberLab knowledge engineering system with the newly announced EMC Centera content addressed storage (CAS) solution.
EMC Centera represents an entirely new software-driven storage architecture purpose-built to address the unique information storage requirements of long-lasting, unchanging digital objects - or 'fixed content' - such as electronic records used in the development and manufacture of drug compounds covered under the US FDA's Part 11 requirements for electronic records and electronic signatures.
This includes such record types as: instrument data files, laboratory reports, electronic notebooks, spreadsheets, clinical data, statistical analysis, microscopy images, bioinformatics data, medical x-rays and Cat scans, Lims reports, methods of analysis, standard operating procedures, and training records.
Scientific Software says it will tightly integrate its CyberLab knowledge engineering system with Centera, providing the life science customer with Part 11 compliance capabilities not obtainable with any other system.
CyberLab will utilise the unique capabilities of Centera to provide the highest level of security and electronic record integrity available. "Our expanded partnership with EMC will provide significant benefits to the life science market," said Soheil Saadat, president and CEO of Scientific Software.
"With the introduction of Centera, our customers will now have a complete and unique solution to protect their intellectual property while lowering the costs of compliance with 21 CFR Part 11." "Centera, when integrated with CyberLab, will help our customers to accelerate their drug pipeline by streamlining research collaboration," said Tom Heiser, EMC's vice president and general manager, content addressed storage. "Life science is one of the fastest growing information generation markets.
Protection and long term retention of this information is a critical customer requirement met head-on by Centera and CyberLab." Once relegated to tape archives, optical disks, or filing cabinets, fixed content is now being driven online, fueled by regulatory requirements, digitisation of the life sciences industry, and the desire to leverage this content into new services and revenue streams.
Just as the growth of applications such as computer aided design and the explosion of the web drove the use of network attached storage (NAS) as an enterprise storage strategy, the need to manage, protect and access fixed content is the driving force behind this new category of networked storage.
