451 Research analyst Simon Robinson wrote the piece below describing the downfall of fellow San Diego firm Nirvanix. AIS customers and prospects can take comfort in knowing that we have been in business for over 20 years and we have very strong financial backing from our three committed private equity investors. In other words, we are firmly established, broadly diversified, …
Big Data Is Bad Word for Big Brother Google
Summary article by Pam Baker in FierceBigData, original article by Antonio Regalado in MIT Technology Review. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ———- Google says ‘Shhh, don’t say big, just say data’ Vendors are still comfortable with saying “big data” in public these days, but many of their business customers would rather not utter the term …
Go Big (Data) or Go Home
News flash: those who invest more than others tend to yield bigger gains. And not just in dollar terms, but in organizational commitment too — the “adapt or die” mentality. Summary article by by Pam Baker in FierceBigData and original article by Satya Ramaswamy in Harvard Business Review blogs. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ——– …
Big Data: “60M 5-Drawer File Cabinets per Hour”
The analogy used in the article below really drives home the visualization of simply how much data we’re talking about when we talk about big data. Wal-Mart — granted, the largest retailer on the planet — generates the equivalent of 60 million 5-drawer file cabinets’ worth of data EVERY HOUR. [ And using 3rd-grade math, that’s the equivalent of 1 …
Info-Graphic: How Big is Big Data?
I’m pleased to present a new info-graphic from AIS. Enjoy and share! Brian Wood, VP of Marketing [divider]
DNA Big Data = Big Data DNA
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 …
3D, High Definition Films: (Really) Big Data
Big data is a big deal, particularly when it comes to genomics and high definition films, particularly new 3D films such as The Hobbit. I picked up the FierceCIO post below about an article in Information Week by Jeff Bertolucci. These two excerpts pretty much sum up the situation: “Within the last five years, we’ve seen something in the order …
Big Data Heart Hadoop
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 …
Big Data, Big Pharma, Smart Analysis…and ClearCompute
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, …
Article: Bioinformatics Called Critical to Next-Generation DNA Sequencing
In addition to being a fairly succinct and self-evident article from FierceHealthIT, there are some really great vocabulary words in here: multigigabase concomitantly armamentarium All jest aside, the need for cloud computing in bioinformatics is real — and rising. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ————– Laboratories that want to run next-generation sequencing (NGS) of DNA …
