MICROSOFT CANADA
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“ THE CLOUD IS ESSENTIALLY A GLOBAL SUPERCOMPUTER THAT YOU CAN ACCESS ON DEMAND AND PAY ONLY FOR WHAT YOU USE ”
— Peter Jones , Microsoft ’ s Industry Lead in Healthcare for Canada
that is greatly expanding , and one that includes researchers investigating causes and early detection of serious conditions such as cancer . It is an area Microsoft is doing a significant amount of work in , and one that requires a tremendous amount of storage given that a single human genome takes up at least 100 gigabytes of space .
“ Storage costs for cloud computing are the lowest we can see , and the number of genomes we will need to sequence in the future is going to put a huge demand on a lot of the infrastructure that exists on premise today ” Jones explains . “ The other benefit is allowing researchers to share their data . The larger the genomic data set the better the research , so we ’ re starting to see researchers coming
DECEMBER 2018