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A Video Case Study – Translational Genomics Research Institute

Enabling People and Organizations to Harness the Transformative Power of Technology
Tom Nolle
Big-Data Analytics in the Cloud?
5|11|12   |   2:10   |   1 comment

Google is now offering its search and big-data algorithms as a service, and while the list price to store and process big-data in the cloud is high, some enterprises are reporting very steep discounts for volume deals. If the trend continues, big-data analytics as a service may become real.
David Wagner
The Answer to Stagnant Wages
5|8|12   |   3:16   |   4 comments

A lesson in microeconomics might help solve the problem of stagnant wages.
E2 Interview
More Competitive Business via Datacenter Strategy
5|4|12   |   2:46   |   No comments

Businesses need to be competitive, yet efficient, and both goals affect datacenter design.
E2 Interview
The Recipe for Greater Efficiency
5|3|12   |   3:14   |   1 comment

Intel supplies the best ingredients to drive greater datacenter efficiency and support new compute, storage, and networking needs.
E2 Interview
Datacenters Enabling Business Transformation
5|1|12   |   06:37   |   No comments

Dell’s Gaurav Chand says that for the first time ever datacenter technology is truly enabling all kinds of organizations to transform their business and achieve new objectives.
E2 Interview
Simplifying IT Architecture
4|30|12   |   05:03   |   1 comment

Steve Felice, president and chief commercial officer of Dell, tells us about customers’ main priorities, which include creating a simpler, more agile, more scalable architecture.
Tom Nolle
New Switch Options for the Midsized User
4|27|12   |   2:20   |   No comments

The over-100-and-under-1000 employee companies have slipped into a crack in the network product lineup, too big for off-the-shelf and too small for giant network vendors' direct attention. Computer vendors and new competitors are enriching the choices here.
Sara Peters
E2’s New End-User Computing Home Base
4|5|12   |   1:11   |   4 comments

Meet E2 at the new place to talk about all things end-user computing.
Tom Nolle
Citrix Sends the Wrong Cloud Message
4|5|12   |   2:12   |   6 comments

Citrix's decision to move from OpenStack to CloudStack may improve its competitive position relative to Amazon and EC2 but it might also focus the cloud on the wrong thing; vendor competition instead of building maximum user value.
Tom Nolle
Cloud Data: Big AND Persistent!
3|28|12   |   2:11   |   10 comments

We always hear about "Big" data, but a real issue in cloud storage is not just bigness but also persistence. A large data model is less complicated than a big application repository that somehow needs to be accessed. The Hadoop send-program-to-data model may be the answer.
Tom Nolle
Data Smooth as Butter?
3|20|12   |   2:12   |   7 comments

A lot of companies are looking for a big-data, cloud-ready, Linux file system, and Oracle may have given us one with Btrfs ("Butter-FS"), designed on the binary tree model, extensible to zetabytes, and cloud-enabled. It's available in production version now and worth checking!
Tom Nolle
EC2 Pricing Says 'Look Beyond Iaas'
3|8|12   |   2:11   |   2 comments

Amazon's zillionth EC2 price reduction should be sending a message: Businesses in general, and SMBs in particular, need to look beyond IaaS to find the cloud revolution. Amazon's greatest discounts are coming in more platform-like offerings.
Sara Peters
How CIOs Fight Poaching
2|29|12   |   2:28   |   4 comments

Government CIOs on tight budgets have to try extra hard to retain staff who are being pursued by head-hunters.
Tom Nolle
Office for iPad: Bad Idea for Everyone?
2|22|12   |   2:15   |   6 comments

Apple's supposed to be cooperating with Microsoft to create an Office version for the iPad, but this notion seems like a bad idea for all the parties involved. Not only does it undermine a Windows tablet, it undermines iCloud!
David Wagner
Build or Destroy
2|17|12   |   3:06   |   6 comments

The way we play helps us figure out how we work.
On the Case
TGen IT: Where We Are Now
5|15|12   |   06:58   |   No comments

TGen is breaking new ground in genomic research by using Dell's storage, cloud, and high-performance computing solutions.
On the Case
TGen IT: Where We Were
4|27|12   |   06:45   |   6 comments

The Translational Genomics Research Institute wanted to save lives, but its efforts were hobbled by immense computing challenges related to collecting, processing, sharing, and storing enormous amounts of data.
On the Case
1,200 Percent Faster
4|18|12   |   02:27   |   11 comments

Through their partnership, Dell and TGen have increased the speed of TGen’s medical research by 1,200 percent.
On the Case
IT May Improve Children's Chances of Survival
4|17|12   |   02:12   |   5 comments

IT is helping medical researchers reach breakthroughs in a way and pace never seen before.
On the Case
Medical Advances in the Cloud
4|10|12   |   1:25   |   3 comments

TGen and Dell are pushing the boundaries of computing, and harnessing the power of the cloud to improve healthcare.
On the Case
TGen: Living the Mission
4|9|12   |   2:25   |   3 comments

TGen's CIO puts the organizational mission at the heart of everything the IT staff does.
On the Case
TGen Speeding Up Biomedical Research to Save More Lives
4|5|12   |   1:59   |   7 comments

The Translational Genomics Research Institute is revamping its computing to improve speed, storage, and collaboration – and, most importantly, to save lives.
On the Case
Computing Power Helping to Save Children's Lives
3|28|12   |   2:13   |   3 comments

The Translational Genomics Institute’s partnership with Dell is enabling them to treat kids with neuroblastoma more quickly and save more lives.