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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / JULY 14, 2003; VOL. 2 NO. 28
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Applications:
PFIZER SELECTS AVAKI COMPREHENSIVE
GRID SOFTWARE
Avaki Corporation, a leader in commercial grid software solutions,
announced
that Pfizer Inc. has selected Avaki Comprehensive Grid software to provide
researchers with automated, secure, wide-area access to research data and
compute power across its global research sites. Avaki Comprehensive Grid
Software provides Pfizer researchers with immediate access to the data and
compute power that is critical to their drug discovery efforts.
Avaki's software will help Pfizer to optimize collaborative research by
allowing data and compute power to be shared more easily across the company's
sites around the world. With Avaki Comprehensive Grid, Pfizer now has the
capability to securely exchange data with its partners to bring together
information critical to the discovery process, while protecting sensitive
intellectual property.
Within the life sciences market, data that is critical to research and
discovery tends to be distributed across multiple locations, difficult to
access, time-consuming and complicated to administer, and inconsistently named
- leading to data that is often out of sync. Avaki's data grid software
simplifies the enormous complexity associated with accessing data resources,
significantly reducing administrative burdens associated with managing
distributed data. Without Avaki Data Grid, researchers are often forced to
conduct time-consuming tasks associated with manually sharing critical
data.
Avaki Data Grid will provide Pfizer's scientists with a software-based,
federated data access solution that enables the seamless sharing of genomic
data among geographically dispersed sites and administrative domains. With
Avaki Data Grid, researchers who have been granted access are able to view the
most up to date version of the data, while the authoritative copy stays where
it is, under the control of local administrators. This automated approach
provides a uniform environment that is easy for researchers to use and for IT
professionals to administer, maintains a high level of security, ensures
consistency of data across the organization, and guarantees access to the most
current data available. Avaki Data Grid will eliminate Pfizer's need for
complex replication infrastructures and will allow researchers to focus on
more critical tasks.
"Avaki grid software solution is being embraced by organizations in the
life
sciences as a secure method for sharing valuable information between
researchers, without adding costs or administrative complexity," said Tim
Yeaton, Avaki's president. "The fact that Pfizer, one of the largest companies
in the world, is relying on Avaki solutions is a true testament to the value
our unique software brings to the enterprise. We are thrilled to be working
with Pfizer, and look forward to helping them achieve their business
objectives."
Avaki Comprehensive Grid allows companies to share compute power over a
wide
area, and create 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.
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