Be The Match leverages NetApp technology to help save more lives.

Madrid, November 2011- The exponential growth offers a wealth of information that, if it is managed and analyzed efficiently, can produce innovations and discoveries that affect our world. Nowhere in it is truer that in the field of health, in which a correct data analysis can lead to new discoveries that change lives deeply in an instant. The key to disclose these data is the technology. Without it, it would not be possible many of the current medical advances that save lives. In short, technology saves lives.

To Be The Match ®, which has the largest list world potential marrow donors and cord blood units donated, the data is the life. Each year, thousands of patients suffering from diseases that put at risk their lives such as leukemia, lymphoma, or sickle cell disease needed a marrow transplant but do not have a compatible donor in their family. Directed by the nationwide non-profit marrow (National Marrow Donor Program ®, NMDP) donor, Be The Match helps connect these patients with donors. The organization realized that it needed a technological base to act as a trainer, not as a limitation to save more lives. For this reason, Be The Match based on NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP).

“The ability to make faster decisions and analyse information in real time has a direct impact on the lives of our patients, and makes our storage platform is a key element of our success,” says Michael Jones, Director of information of Be The Match. “With NetApp, we could accelerate largely the flow of data, which has enabled us to provide 50% more transplants around the world.” “NetApp has played a decisive role by helping us save more lives.”

To give access to patients to a record of more than 15 million donors and 400 000 units of blood from the umbilical cord, Be The Match provides every year thousands of transplants that may save lives. Transplant doctors seek Be The Match Registry ® by means of an application with a sophisticated algorithm of pairing that is 100 million times more complex than typing of blood programs. Since 2007, the number of transplants facilitated by year has increased progressively from 3700 to 5500. Be The Match has established the objective of facilitating 10 000 by the end of 2015. This aggressive growth, along with the great complexity and the volume of data, prompted the Organization to transform its existing infrastructure with NetApp ® as a fundamental part storage. To rely on NetApp, Be The Match could convert its technological environment into a catalyst for speed and flexibility to save lives.

NetApp helps Be The Match to extend the limits of the possible

As a result of its overall transformation program, Be The Match noted a number of advantages which allowed him to accelerate the process of detection, expanding its global reach and obtain more precise matches, which directly helped the Organization to save more lives.

Highlights:

-A recent suite of integrated applications, including the consolidation of the data of Be The Match on a platform of NetApp, has enabled the Organization reducing the time needed to perform a transplant by 15%. Given that many patients have disorders that can be developed very quickly, the opportunity to identify a donor and perform a transplant may be only months or even weeks. Reducing the time to perform a transplant helps patients to proceed faster in the transplant process and improves their chances of survival.

-Be The Match has doubled its annual donor record number to create a new portal of donor selection due to their shared technology based on NetApp infrastructure. The new portal helped to increase the annual number of donors, from an average of 360 records annual 000 in 2000 to about 850 000 in 2008 during the last two years. More likely donors are available to Be The Match, more likely to be find a match for a patient.

-NetApp can offer the performance and bandwidth needed by Be The Match to complete complex analysis quickly and to perform a number of simultaneous searches of algorithm of matching 10 times greater than with your storage system previous. The result helps to improve the accuracy of matching and increase rates of survival.

-the leading efficiency features of NetApp have allowed to Be The Match reduce requirements capacity 900 TB and simplify significantly the overall management, enabling you to widen 65 to 350 TB without adding any new resource. In addition, the increase in efficiency allows the organization reduce overall storage costs, which is of a paramount importance for an organization non lucrative.

-the switch to a base of NetApp has helped Be The Match improve visibility of information and share it with different applications and user groupswhich is essential to its network of partners comprising 525 affiliates in 40 countries. Given that almost half of all transplants has relationship with donors or international recipients, Be The Match will make its services available to its members through a private cloud-based NetApp.

quotes from support

-Dr. Jeffrey w. Dr. Chell, Executive Director, Be The Match

’technology is fundamental to the success of Be The Match. NetApp has shot down technological barriers and has allowed us to climb positions ahead to our ambitious targets of transplants. ’We are confident that count with NetApp as the basis of our technology infrastructure, Be The Match may further expand the limits of what is possible with cell therapy and help save more lives around the world’.

-Rob Salmon, Executive Vice President of operations externally, NetApp

’ Be The Match work is incredible and has come to so many lives of all the» world. To Be The Match, the data are the most precious resource, and its technological change has revolutionized the way they work and research that can be carried out. “Count on servers of NetApp as a basis for the new infrastructure is proof that the truly appropriate technology can save lives.”

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about Be the Match

Be The Match helps patients with leukemia, lymphoma and other diseases that require a marrow or cord blood transplant. Anyone can join the Be The Match Registry ®, the largest global list of potential marrow donors and cord blood units donated, and make their financial contributions or volunteer. Patients and their families also can go to Be The Match to get assistance and resources before, during and after the transplant. Be The Match is led by the nationwide non-profit of patients from cord (National Marrow Donor Program ®, NMDP), a non-profit organization that seeks and compatible donors, trains health professionals and conducts research aimed at saving more lives. If you want more information, visit BeTheMatch.org or call the 1 (800) MARROW-2.