Big Data Needs Big Solutions – Red Hat Helps European Bioinformatics Institute with that Challenge

In North Carolina, Red Hat, Inc. added the European Bioinformatics Institute to its list of organizations that are using the Red Hat OpenStack Platform for data sharing. EMBL-EBI is part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory and uses Embassy Cloud to share research, studies and data around the world. The project allows biological, bioinformatics and cancer researchers, for example, to collaborate and avoid duplication of efforts while building upon one another’s discoveries and data collection, all for free via open source solutions. EMBL-EBI receives more than 16 million requests per day to use the shared data, making it a challenge to find enough power to host it all. That is why Red Hat’s powerful platform is key for keeping EMBL-EBI’s Embassy Cloud project up and running on secure, virtual systems.