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When Genomics England decided to migrate their research and business environment
to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, The Server Labs’ in-depth expertise helped
them to meet their demanding deadlines and provide a platform that will support their
world-leading research today and into the future.

A world leader in genomic medicine

Genomics England is the world’s largest community in genomic healthcare and medical research. Owned by the UK Department of Health and Social Services, it is at the heart of the UK Government’s vision to “create the most advanced genomic healthcare ecosystem in the world.” Genomics England analyses vast amounts of sensitive clinical and other genomics data using High Performance Computing (HPC) technology, where thousands compute nodes work in parallel to process quadrillions of calculations per second.

The big migration

Driven by a need to generate larger and more varied datasets which were query-able by its research partners, Genomics England decided to migrate their data and bioinformatics systems from their existing cloud provider to Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. AWS met the criteria for a highly scalable, flexible and secure platform that enabled effective cost management of HPC resources. When Genomics England decided to migrate their research and business environment to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, The Server Labs’ in-depth expertise helped them to meet their demanding deadlines and provide a platform that will support their world-leading research today and into the future.

A challenging project

The project was challenging for several reasons, including: • The requirement to re-architect the applications to be ‘designed for the cloud’ and able to take advantage of the sophisticated automation capabilities of the AWS platform. • An aggressive ‘must-make’ migration deadline, which left no time for re-architecting before the move. So applications had to be migrated ‘as-is’ then re-architected afterwards. • The sheer volume of applications and data to be migrated, encompassing hundreds of servers and hundreds of terabytes of data. www