The pharmaceutical outsourcing trend and economic restrictions, coupled with the increasing attractiveness of cloud computing offerings, have created a highly dynamic yet nascent market. Included in this report:
- Technological aspects of cloud computing and activities of companies that are active in the field
- Current and emerging applications of cloud computing, with special emphasis on next-generation sequencing and its resultant data
- Market aspects of cloud computing, including competition among providers and user requirements
- Results and analysis from an extensive survey of bioinformatics people concerning their practices and views
- Expert interviews
- General observations, conculsions and possible future trends
Cloud computing is rapidly growing in importance as life science R&D organizations are deluged with data from multiple sources. Simultaneously, demand for computationally complex modeling and simulation studies continues to rise dramatically. Limited funding and budgets make it difficult for many organizations to build the infrastructure necessary to keep pace with these challenges. Cloud computing appears for many as a promising alternative to in-house expansion. The intersection of the outsourcing trend and economic restrictions with the increasing attractiveness of cloud computing offerings has created a highly dynamic, yet nascent, market.
|
- CHAPTER 1
- INTRODUCTION
- 1.1. Factors Driving Use of Cloud Computing in Life Sciences R&D
- 1.2. Goals and Organization of the Report
- CHAPTER 2
- EVOLUTION OF CLOUD COMPUTING AND TECHNICAL BACKGROUND
- 2.1. Definition of Cloud Computing
- 2.2. Evolution of Cloud Computing
- Computer Clusters
- 2.3. Key Concepts
- High-Performance Computing (HPC)
- Virtual Computing
- Grid Computing
- Utility Computing
- MapReduce and Hadoop
- CHAPTER 3
- TECHNOLOGY
- 3.1. Cloud Models
- 3.2. Services
- Software-as-a-Service
- Platform-as-a-Service
- Infrastructure-as-a-Service
- Cloud Storage
- 3.3. Security
- 3.4. The Cloud Definition Revisited
- 3.5. Approaches of Cloud Computing Providers
- Approaches of Major Players
- Amazon Web Services
- Google
- Microsoft
- Hewlett-Packard (HP)
- IBM
- Others
- Approaches of Small Companies and Specialty Players
- Cloudera
- Cycle Computing
- Darkstrand
- EMC
- GenoLogics
- GenomeQuest
- Geospiza
- Gridcore
- Nirvanix
- Ocarina Networks
- NVIDIA
- ParaScale
- Penguin Computing
- Platform Computing
- RightScale
- Univa UD
- CHAPTER 4
- APPLICATIONS
- 4.1. Next-Generation Sequencing
- 4.2. Docking Studies
- 4.3. -Omics Data Analysis
- 4.4. Personalized Medicine
- 4.5. Clinical Studies
- CHAPTER 5
- MARKET DYNAMICS
- 5.1. Market Segmentation
- 5.2. Service Providers
- 5.3. User Survey
- Respondents and Their Organizations
- Nature of Respondents’ Work Activities
- Involvement in Cloud Computing
- Reasons for Interest in Cloud Computing
- Cloud Services of Greatest Interest
- Cloud-Type Preferences
- Reasons for Concern over Public and Hybrid Clouds
- Applications Which Respondents Use or Supervise
- Likelihood That Selected Applications Will Be Run in the Cloud
- Anticipated Increases in Data Processing and Storage Requirements
- Current and Projected Budgets for Life Sciences R&D Cloud Computing
- User Perceptions about Cloud Computing
- User Perceptions about Companies Involved in Cloud Computing
- CHAPTER 6
- INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTS
- 6.1. Steven Muskal, PhD, Chief Executive Officer, Eidogen-Sertanty
- 6.2. David Dooling, PhD, Assistant Director, Informatics, The Genome Center at Washington University in St. Louis
- 6.3. Giles Day, Senior Director, Biotherapeutics Informatics, Pfizer
- 6.4. Todd Smith, PhD, Chief Science Officer, Geospiza
- 6.5. Ronald Ranauro, President and Chief Executive Officer, Director, GenomeQuest
- Tony Flynn, Chief Marketing Officer, GenomeQuest
- 6.6. Michael Schatz, Research Assistant, University of Maryland, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
- CHAPTER 7
- GENERAL OBSERVATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS
- 7.1. Issues
- Cost
- Moving Data Into and Out of the Cloud
- Security
- 7.2. The Future
- Third-Generation Technologies
- Other Perspectives on the Future
- 7.3. Observations and Conclusions
- REFERENCES
- COMPANY INDEX WITH WEB ADDRESSES
Share this report
Other tasks Related Markets Research & Development Reports Free Alert Me service Receive bi-weekly email alerts on new market research Sign Up Today!
|
