Transfer, storage and sharing of data are big challenges for the modern bioinformatician. Intersect is assisting researchers and bioinformaticians throughout NSW by providing a versatile and cost-effective cloud storage platform. While developing this platform, Intersect has supported a variety of use-cases and workflows through a complimentary set of technologies and interfaces. As Intersect enters its seventh year it now offers high performance computing (HPC), high performance storage, and application hosting as well as software engineering and other services. Analysts Mohammad Islam and Stuart Allen will discuss some of the technologies used and the lessons learned while ingesting Intersect’s first petabyte of active research data