Brigham Young University Chemistry Department Finds a Better Way with SoftIron
SoftIron helps BYU Chemistry move beyond aging infrastructure and support fast-growing research data with greater resilience, efficiency, and control.
Brigham Young University’s Chemistry Department supports compute-intensive research across five sub-disciplines, 42 faculty members, 14 technical staff, and hundreds of terabytes of research data.
As BYU continued to advance as a leading research institution, its infrastructure was struggling to keep pace. New scientific instrumentation was creating much larger datasets, storage demands were growing rapidly, and valuable research data was being put at risk by aging systems with limited redundancy. After three years of evaluating traditional infrastructure options, BYU Chemistry chose SoftIron as a different path forward.
With SoftIron, BYU gained a cloud-like infrastructure experience on its own terms: resilient, scalable, and designed to reduce the operational burden on its technical team. Instead of spending time moving data and fixing storage problems, the department could focus more energy on supporting research and preparing for future growth.