Dr Philip Groth, speaking at Pharma Cloud World Europe 2011

Dr Philip Groth,
Managing Scientist
Bayer Schering Pharma

-> Born 1978 in Berlin, married, 1 daughter, Bioinformatician by degree
-> 2000 - 2005 BSc/MSc Bioinformatics
-> 2005-2008 PhD Informatics, focus on Data Management and Integration
-> 2008-2009 Biostatistician at BASF Plant Sciences
-> Since 2009 Managing Bioinformatician of Therapeutic Research Group Oncology at Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals
-> Since 2010 Project Leader Oncology Research Cloud Computing Initiative
-> First two Bayer-wide productive clouds (2 database servers in VPC, 10 application servers in EC2) established in November 2010

Appearing:

Day One – Tuesday 8 November 2011

11.15am

Operational realities of adopting a cloud computing approach

• Clouds can be flexible & efficient @Bayer since November 2010
• Easy: Just three mouse clicks and a credit card away
• Clouds are sexy, but are they attractive? Usefulness vs. Hype!
• At Bayer, clouds are a fly-trap for orphan applications, test environments and HPC computing; other attractive areas include web applications
• Possibly, IT future is written in the clouds. Until then, use and see...

Dr Philip Groth,

Managing Scientist,
Bayer Schering Pharma

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