Thermo LabSystems to collaborate with IBM Life Sciences
Thermo LabSystems and IMB Life Sciences are developing a joint solution to better support the global life science community in managing, archiving, and restoring analytical data for the long term. The organisations will work together to integrate Thermo's eRecordManager analytical data archival system with IBM's Tivoli storage manager and on joint marketing activities.
The goal of this project is to develop a comprehensive enterprise-wide hierarchical storage solution to meet the challenge of making analytical data highly accessible and searchable, while minimising the cost of long-term storage.
Improved access and archival of analytical instrument data ultimately assists life sciences organisations and institutions to make new lead discoveries, terminate flawed projects earlier in the process, and make more informed management decisions during for example the development lifecycle of new drugs and chemicals eRecordManager and Tivoli storage manager in combination will offer an end-to-end solution from the receipt and normalisaton of the original instrument raw data, through indexing for ease of searching, to storage on (and migration to) appropriate media.
'Our mutual customers are looking for integrated solutions that will help ease the storage and retrieval of ever increasing volumes of laboratory data,' said Dr Jamie Coffin, vice president of sales, IBM Life Sciences. 'This unique collaboration based on IBM's robust, scalable infrastructure technology and Thermo LabSystems' data archival and knowledge-management systems will address the needs of our customers for comprehensive laboratory information storage management solutions.'