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Guardian Supplement: Search and deploy

teac — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:54:21 +0000

Whether it’s libraries, business or education, in today’s world it’s not just what you know but how you use it that really counts…read more

NCDD – Nationale Coalitie Digitale Duurzaamheid: At scale, storage is the dominant hardware cost (iPres 2011)

teac — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:42:53 +0000

It is not uncommon for conferences to be ‘interrupted’ by sponsor presentations. When I say ‘interrupted’, I do not necessarily mean that such talks are unwelcome. Conference days tend to be packed from early morning to late at night, and such sponsor interventions can be quite pleasant – a moment to doze off or to check your e-mail. Robert Sharpe (photo) of Tessella (vendors of the Safety Deposit Box or SDB system) gave us no such respite. In an entertaining presentation he shared some scalability experiences with us…read more

IndustryLink: Tessella recognised for innovation by UK’s most prestigious business awards

teac — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:22:27 +0000

The National Archives is the only public sector organisation among this year’s winners of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise. In doing so it becomes the first winner from a government department since the awards were expanded in 2000…read more

Scientific Computing World: STFC chooses secure data archive solution

teac — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 08:59:38 +0000

The UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) is using Tessella’s Safety Deposit Box (SDB) to manage part of its scientific data archive. David Corney, head of data services at RAL, said: ‘SDB integrates perfectly into our scientific data archive.’…read more

Wellcome Trust Digital Library Blog Spot: Preserving our digital assets #1 – SDB4

teac — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:29:17 +0000

The successful long term management of digital assets is a key concern for us as we build our digital resource. Until recently, we did not have a dedicated system in use for storing and managing master files for any digitised content, and our file backup system was not idea for dealing with large sets of data. Files were managed via simple filesharing on dedicated storage servers. Backups were only created for some content, and even then the backups were not permanent…read more

The Scientist: Balancing Biases

teac — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:52:42 +0000

By Jef Akst

How cognitive prejudices can influence research decisions, and how the pitfalls of human nature can be avoided

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Merck & Co. was at the height of an epic pharmaceuticals boom. Annual sales doubled and profits tripled, most notably driven by sales of a congestive heart failure treatment that hit the billion-dollar mark just three years after its 1985 introduction. In 1993, Fortune magazine named Merck America’s “most admired” company—for the seventh year in a row. Despite the company’s unparalleled success, Merck was not immune to the common cognitive biases that can subtly influence everyday research decisions…read more

Information Age: Digital History: How the Wellcome Library is preserving the history of medical science in digital form

teac — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 07:45:59 +0000

The Wellcome Library holds one of the world’s largest collections on the history of medical science and its role in society, and is maintained to support the Wellcome Trust’s mission of achieving “extraordinary improvements in health by supporting the brightest minds”… read more

Information World Review: The National Archives wins Queen’s Award for Enterprise

teac — Tue, 03 May 2011 09:55:42 +0000

An Innovation award was made jointly to the official archive and technology provider, Tessella for their public private partnership in developing a system for preserving digital information. This system, the Safety Deposit Box (SDB), has since been adopted by libraries and archives around the world…read more

Pharma Times – Regulatory concerns about adaptive trials are easing, says Perceptive

teac — Tue, 03 May 2011 09:21:05 +0000

By Peter Mansell

Growing implementation of adaptive clinical trials following the publication of draft guidance on adaptive designs by the US Food and Drug Administration in February 2010 is helping to ease regulatory concerns within industry about the approach, says eClinical solutions specialist Perceptive Informatics…read more

Bio-IT World: The Psychology of ‘Smarter’ Drug Discovery

teac — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 07:54:20 +0000

Researchers identify four cognitive biases that might be slowing drug discovery.

By Courtney Andersen

In an age of increasing financial and logistical pressures facing biotech and pharmaceutical companies, optimizing R&D success is a critical task. But in a commentary published last year in Drug Discovery Today, Andrew Chadwick of Tessella and Matthew Segall of Optibrium argued that psychology could be hindering the productivity of drug discovery teams, even suggesting that the traditional approach to discovery is actually blocking progress…read more