HIPAA Updates — And How They Affect AIS Customers

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451 Research produced the article below, which is an excellent summary of recent changes to HIPAA — and a solid reminder of why it is so important to understand, and have faith in, the compliance measures in place with your data center services provider. Fret not, for AIS customers are in good hands. Read more about our compliance levels here …

DNA Big Data = Big Data DNA

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This article reveals an interesting twist on the subject of big data and bioinformatics. Caron Carlson from FierceCIO picked up on an article by Ed Yong in Nature about using actual DNA to store big data. But don’t throw out those tapes and disks drive quite yet: at over $12K per MB to write and $220 to read, there’s still …

Big Data Heart Hadoop

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I picked up this post from FierceBiotech IT about a story by Chris Kanaracus in Computerworld regarding Hadoop and its use in big data applications (such as genomics). Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ————- Hadoop will be in most advanced analytics products by 2015, Gartner says Expect plenty of uptake for natural language and vocal command …

BIOCOM Partnering Conf, Feb 27-28 in La Jolla

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February 27-28, 2013 | The Lodge at Torrey Pines 11480 North Torrey Pines Road La Jolla, CA 92037 | 7:00 am – 5:00pm BIOCOM’s Third Annual Global Life Science Partnering Conference is an exclusive global partnering and networking forum that brings together senior executives and business development professionals from leading pharmaceutical and biotech companies. The conference will include case study …

The Real Value of Genomics in Medicine

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The following article by Ryan McBride from FierceBiotechIT shines a light on an area of science that has gotten a LOT of hype — and seemingly deservedly so. Bottom line: yes, indeed, genomics rocks. Read the article and its source material (both below) to see for yourself. We at AIS are certainly in the genomics sequencing camp. In fact, we …

451 Research Article on AIS

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451 Research analyst Glenn Ford wrote the excellent piece below summarizing AIS data center service offerings. This is a must-read! Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ———– American Internet Services update American Internet Services (AIS) is a multi-tenant datacenter (MTDC) provider that offers colocation, cloud services, disaster recovery/business continuity (DR/BC), bioinformatics analytics, professional services and managed …

Illumina, Life Technologies, Bioinformatics

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Bioinformatics is hot, and firms partnering / collaborating on bioinformatics is even hotter. The FierceBiotechIT article below — and the source article from Bio-IT World — recount what two of the main players (Illumina and Life Technologies, both based in San Diego) are doing in the space. Check out our own ClearCompute Software as a Service (SaaS) offering to understand …

HIMSS Survey Results re: Healthcare Privacy, Security

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I picked up the article below by Dan Bowman in FierceHealthIT. While directly related to healthcare, the increasing focus on data privacy and network security could equally apply to other organizations such as banking and financial services, technology, e-retailing, and more. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing —————– HIMSS: Hospitals spending more to ensure data privacy, …

Big Data, Big Pharma, Smart Analysis…and ClearCompute

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The article below by Ryan McBride from FierceBiotech IT covers an original piece from Guy Cavet of Kaggle in Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN). We at AIS agree that bioinformatics is transforming the nature of genetic and pharmaceutical research — which is why we launched AIS ClearCompute to empower bioinformatics scientists to do their work in an affordable, secure, …