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Amazon Cloud Sees Opportunity in Genomic Data Overload

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

The Amazon model, which customers rent server space on a pay-as-you-go basis, and get access to their data anytime via the Internet. It’s supposed to allow small businesses, governments, and anybody else to save cash and hassles by not having to buy and maintain their own in-house servers. The model is credited with enabling a new generation of lean tech startups to build businesses using far less capital.

Computing challenges have become a “serious blocker” to people trying to make sense of the genomic wave, Singh says. And Amazon has made it a high priority over the past couple years to become the company that stores genomic data in a cheaper and more accessible way for researchers. Customers, Singh says, “have started looking at the cloud very seriously as a possible option. Over the last year or so, that curiosity has turned into serious adoption.”

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Netflix Now a part of Amazon’s Cloud Hosting Platform

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

According to The New York Times, Netflix has just embarked on a two-year project to “move most of its Web technology — customer movie queues, search tools and the like” to an Amazon-powered infrastructure. Netflix VP of Engineering Kevin McEntee explains that this unexpected switch allows Netflix to “focus our innovation around finding movies, rather than building larger and larger data centers.”

These days the cloud providers are struggling to bring these types of flexible services to the more conservative as well as lucrative world of large corporations. While most of the large companies have already taken their first careful steps into the cloud, but still many are worried about data failures and slow delivery of data over a network.

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