Aiming to give its scientists greater flexibility, the Sanger Institute recently implemented an OpenStack private cloud to complement its existing batch computing infrastructure. The Institute initially opted for self-maintained Ceph storage, but as the service evolved, the Institute turned to Canonical for high-level support. With Canonical’s help, the Sanger Institute has successfully scaled tonover 20 PB of Ceph storage and unlocked the potential of the S3 protocol – enabling scientists to seamlessly share huge volumes of genomic data all around the world.