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Cloud adoption statistics are high, indicating that companies are continuing to move to the cloud. But that doesn’t mean your company should jump on the cloud bandwagon — at least not without the right strategy and assistance. It’s one thing to implement software-as-a-service (SaaS) or a cloud-first strategy for new systems. It’s an entirely different ball game when it comes to moving enterprise systems to the cloud — particularly legacy systems and those that require high availability. Not all

What’s the General Data Protection Regulation, known as GDPR, have to do with the cloud? The answer: a lot. Personal data — any data that can identify a person — is increasingly making its way into the cloud. For example, organizations are using IoT - connected devices, AI and RFID technologies to collect, use and integrate personal information into products and are storing and processing that data in the cloud. GDPR provides updated legislation throughout the EU to protect that personal

Pharmaceutical research is data-intensive. It takes tremendous computational power to parse and analyze the requisite giant chunks of data. The cloud delivers that power and helps accelerate research processes and, ultimately, research findings. That’s why one pharmaceutical company was using some “off the shelf” CloudFormation templates to create its own powerful informatics environment on the AWS cloud. However, the company determined that it needed assistance in optimizing that environment. A key driver was its use of a set of

It’s one thing to create a platform to support software development. But it requires special expertise to build out one that specifically employs AWS best practices and meets rigorous compliance requirements. The challenge is further intensified when the software development process relies on open source libraries to accelerate time-to-market. With open source libraries come open source vulnerabilities. The Assignment When a life sciences organization requested ClearScale’s assistance in creating infrastructure for a new software project, the ClearScale team

In the world of software development, the use of a feature branch workflow is a good thing. The idea is that all feature development takes place in a dedicated branch instead of the master branch. Among the benefits: multiple developers can work on a particular feature without disturbing the main codebase. That was how a ClearScale customer was handling new feature development for the software underlying one of its key products. However, the process required dynamically and automatically launching an