Over the last 30 years, the human genome is the lock that scientists have been trying to pick in order to understand why certain demographics are more prone to diseases, and others aren’t. In this 30 year timeframe, biologists and … Read More
When it comes to healthcare, file transfers aren’t something to be left to Dropbox or FTP email attachments. The requirements are many; files must remain confidential, visible, and secure – every time. Achieving this is becoming ever more challenging as … Read More
The Globus Toolkit has been an open source project since its inception, allowing the community to provide enhancements that have made it what it is today. But after a nearly 20-year run as what many see as the benchmark of … Read More
In my earlier blog post, “A Day In Data: How Much Data We Generate and Consume in a Day” I examined the common data-related tasks and the amounts of data these tasks generate and consume in a day. When I … Read More
We see a lot of confusion among IT professionals about the pros/cons of cloud-based object storage like Amazon S3 and Microsoft Azure Blob. There tends to be a general lack of awareness regarding the smaller players, like Backblaze B2 and … Read More
I‘ve been thinking about the amount of data created and consumed in a single day, and it got me curious to look into the figures. I found the results very interesting – so I thought I would make an infographic … Read More
I’ve been looking into projects that are generating large amounts of data or big data in other words, and one project I came across that really peaked my interest was the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) Project. This a long term … Read More
There is a new wave of regulation coming in the form of the European Union Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR). These provisions and regulations have been in development over the last four years, and starting May 25th, 2018; it will … Read More
Moving data into cloud storage can present a number of challenges for organizations across all industries. Some of these challenges include finding a tool that can simplify the process and a solution that can move the data to the cloud … Read More
Whether your organization is in healthcare, government, technology or media, information is inevitably going to move around it. In some situations, your data may have to leave the secure boundaries of your organization to make its way to clients or … Read More