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PharmaVOICE - June 2010 The Power of the Cloud By Robin Robinson When Dave Powers, senior systems engineer, research and development IT at Eli Lilly and Company, talks about the advantages of cloud computing in the life-sciences industry, he gets pretty excited — as do others who have experienced first hand the benefits of the cloud. According to our thought leaders, cloud computing is game changing in the race to innovation, enabling scientists and technologists to quickly answer complicated analytical problems in record time and at record cost-savings. Lilly has validated the ability to move large scientific computing workloads online, or to the cloud, if you prefer. Among other initiatives, Lilly runs a 64-machine cluster computer working on bioinformatics sequence information that is able to reduce a 12-week processing time to 20 minutes. The speed is remarkable, and so is the cost: using Amazon’s EC2, the computer power costs all of about... Sidebar: The Cloud Life-Sciences’ R&D Increasingly Adopts Cloud Computing Model Proportion of Life-Sciences R&D Informatics Budgets Devoted to Cloud Computing Cloud Service Levels Experts on This Topic Lynette Ferrara. Partner, CSC’s Health Informatics Practice, a global provider of technology-enabled business solutions. For more information, visit csc.com or e-mail Ms. Ferrara at gferrara@csc.com. Michael Naimoli. U.S. Life Sciences Industry Solutions Director, Microsoft Corp., a provider of software, services, and solutions. For more information, visit microsoft.com. Eric Olden. Founder and CEO, Symplified, a cloud security company that secures and optimizes Internet business by simplifying online identities and complex relationships. For more information, visit symplified.com. Dave Powers. Senior Systems Engineer, Research and Development IT, Eli Lilly and Company, a Fortune 500 biopharmaceutical company, which is developing pharmaceutical products by applying the latest research from its own worldwide laboratories and from collaboration. For more information, visit lilly.com. Jason Stowe. Founder and CEO, Cycle Computing, a provider of open-source, high-performance computing technology on internal desktops, servers, and in the cloud. For more information, visit cyclecomputing.com. Matt Wallach. Executive VP and General Manager, Veeva Systems, which offers SaaS-based solutions for the global life-sciences industry. For more information, visit veevasystems.com.
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