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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…
As R&D Budgets Shrink and Data Grows, Bioinformatics Service Providers Could Gain in Popularity
December 14th, 2010 by Richard Holland
GenomeWeb published an article in BioInform this week giving a great case study of our relationship with local biotech firm Cytocell. It describes the state of the bioinformatics outsourcing market in general and gives examples of a number of firms active in the area. Several quotes from our recent white paper entitled "Ten Steps to Successfully…
Eagle Release Version 60 of the Ensembl Browser VM
November 17th, 2010 by Nick
Eagle Genomics are pleased to announce the launch of version 60 of the Ensembl Browser VM.
Ensembl Genomes Virtual Machine(VM)
October 13th, 2010 by Nick
I’m currently working on creating a VM with all the Ensembl Genomes ( currently plants, protists, metazoa, fungi and bacteria ) running on it. The idea of making the VM is that running a local mirror of Ensembl Genomes becomes very easy indeed, thus saving time and expense for anyone hosting an in house copy…