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Storage at a glacial pace
August 30th, 2012 by Richard Holland
Amazon's announcement of its new Glacier storage service last week was a great example of a company listening to the needs of its customers then acting accordingly. I should have blogged about it already, but was waiting to read up on the details a bit first to see if it could actually be applicable to…
The power of open science
August 21st, 2012 by Richard Holland
This is a really short post – the video on the BBC website in this link gives the full story. A 15-year old teenager from the US has developed a pancreatic cancer test which greatly undercuts the cost of the existing standard test, and runs several orders of magnitude faster. Aside from this remarkable achievement…
Outsourcing of Big Data Analysis
August 21st, 2012 by Richard Holland
"Many large drug companies have decided that big data informatics are not a core competency, and have elected to outsource this as a service" says David Shaywitz in The Atlantic. Shortly after, in an article on Forbes, the same author says "many large drug companies seem to have decided that hefty big data analytics is…
Model Patents
August 8th, 2012 by Richard Holland
A couple of weeks ago, Stanford University published details of the first complete computational model of an organism representing every interaction that takes place within it during its entire lifecycle. Whilst only a humble single-celled organism, this is a big step forward. It has long been the desire of researchers to be able to minimise…
More Big Data
August 1st, 2012 by Richard Holland
After last week's post on Big Data, here's another one, this time drawing inspiration from a completely different industry – Defence and Intelligence! Thayne Coffman, CSO at 21CT, gave a presentation at FloCon 2012 in Texas on lessons learned from network analysis R&D in defence and intel. His executive summary raised three main points: 1. Analysts…