High-Performance Computing has increased the realms of scientific discovery, but as the volume of data being generated through research continues to grow at an exponential rate, organisations are faced with the question of storage. Moving forward, this is the biggest challenge faced by research centres that don’t want to be limited by the speed and capacity of their solution. Founded in Paris by Professors Gérard Saillant, Yves Agid and Olivier Lyon-Caen, the French Institute for Brain and Spinal Cord Disorders (Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière, ICM) needed an advanced storage system that would combine high performance, data security and manageability.