Printer-friendly versionAs an industry leader in life sciences, biomedical and translational research, GenoLogics is one of the first to bring the benefits of a hosted commercial solution to the medical research community.
Cloud Computing Approach: Software Development and Delivery Evolution
Software products generally start as custom projects taken on by the consumer of the product. If there is enough market demand, commercial software development companies enter the market and create off-the-shelf products. As the feature set and functions of the commercial products stabilize, the next evolutionary step is for a product to become a hosted solution to relieve customers of the administrative burden of having to buy hardware, install software, and hire people to provide maintenance for the IT infrastructure.
Informatics Software: Cloud Computing Solution Benefits
Hosted solutions provide compelling advantages in terms of flexibility, scalability, reliability, affordability and security. Medical researchers can relieve the IT burden of maintaining systems from their staff by adopting hosted solutions, and can get to results faster and publish sooner. Additionally, hosted solutions allow research staff to focus on higher-level scientific questions rather than study administration.
As hosted solutions have steadily gained in popularity over the last 10 years, more companies that specialize in offering hosted platforms have emerged. Hosted platform providers make it possible for software vendors to offer hosted solutions on these platforms with robust built-in security features and virtually unlimited bandwidth and storage resources.
GenoLogics uses the latest Java and web-based technologies and architectures, and leverages the leading cloud-based computing platforms, to provide an adaptive Web platform for:
• Data capture
• Information sharing
• High performance computing
• Data storage
