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University of Michigan and Yottabyte Partner to Accelerate Data-Intensive ResearchBLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich., Sept. 13, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- A strategic partnership between the University of Michigan and software company Yottabyte promises to unleash a new wave of data-intensive research by providing a flexible computing cloud for complex computational analyses of sensitive and restricted data. Logo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20160912/406422LOGO The Yottabyte Research Cloud will provide scientists high performance, secure and flexible computing environments that enable the analysis of sensitive data sets restricted by federal privacy laws, proprietary access agreements, or confidentiality requirements. Previously, the complexity of building secure and project-specific IT platforms often made the computational analysis of sensitive data prohibitively costly and time consuming. Brahmajee Nallamothu, professor of internal medicine, tested a pilot installation of the Yottabyte Research Cloud at the U-M Institute of Healthcare Policy and Innovation for his research on such topics as predictors of opioid use after surgery and the costs and uses of cancer screenings under the Affordable Care Act. "We recently moved a healthcare claims database, which is multiple terabytes in size and requires a great deal of memory and fast storage to process, onto the pilot platform," Nallamothu said. "The platform allows us to immediately increase or decrease computing resources to meet demand while permitting multiple users to access the data safely and remotely. Our previous setup relied on network storage and self-managed hardware, which was extremely inefficient compared to what we can do now." "The Yottabyte Research Cloud will improve research productivity by reducing the cost and time required to create the individualized, secure computing platforms that are increasingly necessary to support scientific discovery in the age of Big Data," said Eric Michielssen, associate vice president for advanced research computing at U-M. "With the Yottabyte Research Cloud, researchers will be able to ask more questions, faster, of the ever-expanding and massive sets of data collected for their work," said Yottabyte CEO Paul E. Hodges, III. "We are very pleased to be a part of the diverse and challenging research environment at U-M. This partnership is a great opportunity to develop and refine computing tools that will increase the productivity of U-M's world class researchers." Many U-M scientists are working on a variety of research projects that could benefit from use of the Yottabyte Research Cloud:
The Yottabyte Research Cloud is U-M's first foray into software-defined infrastructure for research, allowing on-the-fly personalized configuration of any-scale computing resources, which promises to change the way traditional IT infrastructure systems are deployed across the research community. More about Yottabyte: www.yottabyte.com. More about Yottabyte Research Cloud: arc-ts.umich.edu/yrc To view the original version on PR Newswire, visit:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/university-of-michigan-and-yottabyte-partner-to-accelerate-data-intensive-research-300326825.html SOURCE Yottabyte |