European Bioinformatics Institute and Red Hat Collaborate to Enhance Global Biological Research Capabilities
January 31 2017 - 8:00AM
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Collaborative big data cloud solution, Embassy
Cloud, enabled by Red Hat OpenStack Platform
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced that the European Bioinformatics
Institute (EMBL-EBI), part of the European Molecular Biology
Laboratory, is using Red Hat OpenStack Platform to deliver the
scale and flexibility required to drive its Embassy Cloud project.
The goal of Embassy Cloud is to transform the way collaborative
research, such as pan-cancer analysis, tackles the world’s toughest
biological challenges.
EMBL-EBI provides freely available data from life-science
experiments to researchers worldwide. On average per day there are
more than 16 million requests to use data on its websites. EMBL-EBI
actively encourages collaboration, inspires new research and
provides advanced bioinformatics training to scientists at all
levels. Increasingly, it is working to provide a common IT
infrastructure on which research organizations of all sizes can
work.
The life sciences industry has a long tradition of
collaboration. However, modern research requires access to huge
data sets, and not every research institute has the resources to
create the necessary computing power. Embassy Cloud provides
private, more secure, virtual-machine-based workspaces within the
EMBL-EBI infrastructure, where collaborators can make optimal use
of their own customized workflows, applications and datasets.
EMBL-EBI has a long-standing relationship with Red Hat, having
relied on Red Hat Enterprise Linux for several years. The institute
had previously used VMware’s vCloud for its Embassy Cloud but was
in need of a replacement solution that could scale its IT resources
dramatically, both up and down. Recognizing OpenStack as an
accepted standard in the research community, EMBL-EBI migrated to
the Red Hat OpenStack Platform to deliver a scalable, flexible
cloud platform that would support its objective of improving global
research collaborations.
EMBL-EBI considered two major factors when deciding to migrate:
the platform had to be co-engineered to work seamlessly with Red
Hat Enterprise Linux, and the provider had to provide local,
hands-on support in Europe. The provider’s local IT teams had to be
available to provide guidance and technical assistance to the
institute’s in-house teams, whenever and wherever required. Red Hat
delivers on both.
Today, EMBL-EBI has several ‘tenants’ using its Embassy Cloud,
including not-for profit research institutes and pharmaceutical
companies. The scalability Red Hat solutions enable in this
environment has already helped grow its support for its research
activities from the original 2,000 to 4,000 cores. Plans are in
place to grow Embassy Cloud to 6,000 cores and four petabytes.
Supporting Quotes
Steven Newhouse, head of Technical Services at EMBL-EBI"Many
global research collaborations would not be possible without the
functionality of Embassy Cloud. We are now using the Red Hat
OpenStack Platform to support these collaborations - it has the
flexibility and scalability needed to allow people working on
different projects, in different locations, to access the
information they need, as and when they need it."
Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager, OpenStack, Red Hat“It’s
an honor to work closely with EMBL-EBI, whose collaborative and
open approach to solving some of the world’s most challenging
problems strongly resonates with the Red Hat approach to
transforming enterprise IT We’re excited about role of open source
solutions and in particular, production-ready Red Hat OpenStack
Platform, in helping to truly define and accelerate the future of
science and discovery.”
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