Scientific
Applications:
AVAKI GRID SOFTWARE TO IMPROVE
RESEARCH SITES FOR AVENTIS
Avaki Corporation, a leader in commercial grid software solutions,
announced
that global pharmaceutical company Aventis has chosen Avaki Data Grid software
to provide automated, secure, wide-area access to bioinformatics research data
across multiple North American research sites. Avaki Data Grid automates the
sharing of business-critical data resources, enabling users to significantly
speed the performance of applications.
Avaki software will enable users to share important research data without
the
need to manually compress and copy data files by making data available to
multiple sites and administrative domains from its source location. This
approach can help to eliminate data inconsistency and synchronization
challenges associated with multiple copies, and to prevent unnecessary
consumption of disk space and productivity delays.
With Avaki Data Grid, companies can now securely share data seamlessly
among
geographically dispersed users and applications, with automated access to
wide-area data that appears local to those who have been granted access to it.
Avaki Data Grid ensures the consistency of data across the organization,
ensures access to the most current data available, and provides a uniform
environment that is easy for researchers to use and for IT professionals to
administer.
"Life sciences organizations demand the ability to quickly and easily
access
huge amounts of data, regardless of where it resides, and securely share it in
a timely and consistent fashion across their R&D teams," said Tim Yeaton,
President of Avaki. "The Avaki Data Grid solution has been particularly
appealing to life sciences organizations because of its unique ability to
address the data-intensive work that drives the business processes of these
organizations. We are extremely pleased to make this solution available to
Aventis."
Avaki Data Grid 3.0, released last month, creates a federated data service,
which enables the secure sharing of data among wide-area, multi-organizational
users and applications. With Avaki Data Grid, companies eliminate costly
organizational and technical barriers to data sharing, while creating a
flexible, J2EE-based access infrastructure that installs quickly and easily
and scales to meet business requirements.
About Avaki
Avaki Corporation offers the first commercial grid software solution to
address critical data access challenges facing today's enterprise. Avaki's
software products federate IT resources across departments and locations,
enabling users and applications to access distributed data and processing
power as if they were local. Using these products, companies gain dramatic
productivity improvements while reducing IT cost and complexity. Unlike other
distributed computing solutions, Avaki's products provide breakthrough data
access capabilities, alone or in combination with Avaki's proven compute grid
capabilities. Customers such as Aventis, Infinity, Gene Logic, the North
Carolina Bioinformatics Grid project, Pfizer, Structural Bioinformatics and
Texas Tech are using Avaki software to reduce and control IT costs, improve
efficiency of multi-site or inter-company collaboration, and accelerate
product development. Backed by Polaris Venture Partners, General Catalyst, and
Sofinnova, Avaki is located in Burlington, Mass.
Web site: www.avaki.com
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