Recent News On-ramping to the cloud

Migrating Batch Jobs to AWS The company needed to scale the Batch processing system without buying new hardware and hiring additional personnel to physically manage the servers. The current batch processing system could not scale to address the growing demand due to limited server capacity. System administrators wasted a lot of time doing repetitive tasks such as prepping the servers and fixing failed hardware. Maintenance of the equipment was a major bottleneck and loading down the business. Download PDF Genomics workflow set made easy with AWS Genomics CLI The AWS Genomics CLI (or AGC) seriously removes all the grunt work involved in setting up bioinformatics pipelines to run in the cloud. We know that Snakemake, Cromwell, NextFlow and miniWDL all work happily in the cloud on AWS Batch, but AGC means you don't have to know to set all that stuff up - it does it for you. Watch the video

Gartner: Migrating to the Cloud: Why, How and What Makes Sense? Successfully migrating workloads to the cloud means delivering maximum benefits with minimal effort and costs. Read full article

Recent News Ramping-up in the cloud

Building High-Throughput Genomics Batch Workflows on AWS: Job Layer (Part 1 of 4) Deriving insights from data is foundational to nearly every organization, and many customers process high volumes of data every day. One common requirement of customers in life sciences is the need to analyze these data in a high-throughput fashion without sacrificing time-to-insight. Read full blog Building High-Throughput Genomics Batch Workflows on AWS: Job Layer (Part 2 of 4) This post is the second in a series on how to build a genomics workflow on AWS. In Part 1, we introduced a general architecture, shown below, and highlighted the three common layers in a batch workflow. Read full blog Azure Batch: Cloud-Scale Job Scheduling Batch runs the applications that you use on workstations and clusters. It’s easy to cloud-enable your executable files and scripts to scale out. Batch provides a queue to receive the work that you want to run and executes your applications. Read full article How to run jobs at scale with Azure Batch | Azure Tips and Tricks In this edition of Azure Tips and Tricks, learn how to run jobs at scale with Azure Batch. Watch video