Arkivum partners with Thermo Fisher Scientific for long-term data safeguarding solution

Provider of long-term data safeguarding and data usability solutions Arkivum, has signed a partnership agreement with biotechnology company Thermo Fisher Scientific.

The partnership enables Thermo Fisher Scientific to offer its European customers an alternative solution to manage massive quantities of data generated by today’s life sciences technologies in a manner that is compliant with regulatory and governance requirements.

European customers will be able to use Thermo Fisher Scientific’s data management solutions to help handle the safeguarding tasks associated with big data. Because of the advent of affordable digital scanning and sequencing technologies, data acquisition is becoming easier. IT departments can potentially struggle to handle the safeguarding tasks associated with big data. Primary storage can be rapidly depleted, backups and migrations can become more taxing, and data integrity can be threatened as a result.

Guy Yaniv, CEO of Arkivum said: “The life sciences industry is a key driver of big data applications, from molecular medicine to clinical trials. Compliance with regulatory requirements and internal best practices is a major and growing challenge. Just storing data is no longer sufficient. Via integrations with Thermo Fisher’s portfolio of advanced systems and services, Arkivum’s solutions can now enable life sciences organisations to focus on their core activities by providing end-to-end resilience, scaling and data sovereignty.”

Enzo Razzoli, leader of Field Services and Support for Thermo Fisher Scientific said: “As an increasing amount of data is being generated in this era of precision medicine, it is clear that there is a need for bioinformatics and IT solutions designed to ensure secure data governance. To that end, we are continually looking ahead in the interest of being in position to provide our customers with the most advanced tools, including new approaches to managing information that is compliant with regional regulatory agencies.”