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Running a business in the cloud
May 25th, 2012 by Glenn Proctor
Eagle Genomics is a growing company, and as such we need to have efficient tools that help us run our business without getting in the way. In the early days of the company we had a basic email system, a "quirky" calendaring system, and our time tracking and holiday management was done with spreadsheet-based procedures…
Who owns Big Data?
May 23rd, 2012 by Richard Holland
The NY Times ran a May 21 article entitled "Troves of Personal Data, Forbidden to Researchers" in which its correspondent discussed the twin thorny issues of size and ownership/privacy of data. Both factors can play a role in making the source data behind published research accessible to third parties wishing to analyse it or replicate…
A growing cloud of acceptable IT
May 1st, 2012 by Richard Holland
At long last, someone on the inside has finally admitted that existing procedures for developing government-approved IT solutions is out-of-date, old-fashioned, and in his words, "unacceptable". The single-supplier approach has failed to deliver value-for-money, innovation or any of those other things that are deemed important today (and arguably have always been important), because historically its…