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Cloud will disrupt the outsourcing model
December 20th, 2011 by Will Spooner
As more enterprises adopt service-oriented architecture principals and practices, outsourcing may become an easier, more manageable option
Genetics ‘cloud’ to create new opportunities for researchers and clinicians
September 8th, 2011 by Richard Holland
Gene sequencing and analysis could be dramatically speeded up, leading to patients receiving a quicker and more accurate diagnosis, thanks to research led by Eagle Genomics Ltd. Using cloud computing technology, the researchers have found they can slash the amount of time it takes to store the huge amounts of information produced when individual genes…
How to Convert S3-backed (instance store) AMI to EBS-backed AMI
May 6th, 2011 by Madhu Donepudi
In one of the recent Amazon Deep Dive Workshop, we were handed a cheat sheet to turn a Linux S3 instance to EBS backed instance. This is one of the simplest process I have come across. Create an EBS volume in the same availability zone as your S3 instance running in. Attach the volume to…
Cognizant and Eagle Genomics to Work with Pistoia Alliance to Develop a Cloud-based Platform for Streamlining Sequence Services
April 12th, 2011 by Richard Holland
LONDON, April 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH), a leading provider of consulting, technology, and business process outsourcing services, and Eagle Genomics Ltd., a bioinformatics software company specializing in genomic data management and integration, today announced they are working with the Pistoia Alliance, Inc., a nonprofit, precompetitive alliance of life science companies and vendors,…
Survey preliminary results
April 8th, 2011 by Richard Holland
At the Eagle Genomics Symposium on Tuesday, our Technical Director Will Spooner presented preliminary results from the survey we ran in parallel with the registration process. Will is going to post a full analysis on this blog soon, but for now here are the key points he picked out as important during his summary at…
Symposium success!
April 7th, 2011 by Richard Holland
Well that went better than could be hoped for! The 1st Eagle Genomics Symposium ("Provisioning Bioinformatics For The Next Decade – Are We Prepared?") proceeded very smoothly with a wide variety of interesting talks and plenty of discussions and networking taking place during the breaks. The delegates came from across Europe and included a number…
VMware in the cloud
April 4th, 2011 by Richard Holland
Amazon currently permits VMware users to import their existing VMware images and convert them into AWS-compatible AMIs. There are only three caveats: (a) the machine must be shut down before importing, (b) it must have less than 1TB of virtual harddrive, and (c) it must be running Windows Server 2008. That last caveat is the…
Amazon dedicated hardware
March 28th, 2011 by Richard Holland
This morning Amazon Web Services announced Dedicated Instances which are normal cloud instances but running on hardware that is exclusive for the customer. In other words, if you start up one of these, there is zero chance of someone else in another instance on the same machine hacking into yours by breaking through the hypervisor, because…
Cloud Migration white paper published
March 24th, 2011 by Richard Holland
Eagle Genomics are proud to announce the publication of their latest Ten Steps white paper, this time on the subject of migrating existing systems to use the cloud. Cloud computing has attracted a lot of hyperbole since it became a trendy topic for IT managers to talk about. Companies frequently trumpet their cloud enabled services…
Richard explains how Eagle Genomics is using the cloud
March 16th, 2011 by Ivan Karabaliev
Eagle's operational director Richard Holland will give a talk tomorrow as a AWS customer at the AWS Tech Summit for Developers and Architects, held in London at the Congress Centre. He will explain how Eagle Genomics has applied Amazon Web Services to its business model. The event will give you in-depth knowledge of key technical…