As shown in Figure 2, the data-intensive cloud service platform consists of analysis services based on virtual infrastructure and data management that enables efficient access to high-capacity data.
The company offers several products, including AppFolio SecureDocs (secure virtual data room), AppFolio Property Manager (online property management software), and RentApp (online rental applications).
The virtual screening step presents also some data management issues: although the size of the output is not huge, the number of compounds in analysis, the number of simulations performed, and the number of different conformations between the proteins and the ligands provided by the docking algorithm usually require the use of a relational database to be managed.
In the same family of solutions, ChemDataBase [19] is a data management infrastructure mainly focused on virtual screening which presents the distinctive feature of being able to create and retrieve databases over grid infrastructures.
To date, 30 different instances of the SEEK virtual machine have been downloaded and instantiated for data management support in systems biology projects.
Integrated data management systems based on a private virtual network connecting all the collaborating centres.
The Virtual Liver Network (VLN - http://www.virtual-liver.de) adopted SEEK as a data management platform due to the success of the SysMO-SEEK.
It has subsequently been adopted by a number of other consortia, in systems biology, for example, the Virtual Liver project; or related disciplines, for example, the BioVel SEEK for biodiversity data management.
A whole new class of IT systems-management software and techniques is needed to create a virtual data center operating system.
VMware just announced vSphere 4, which puts a management umbrella over the entire virtual world (the company refers to vSphere 4 as a virtual data center operating system).
Data management needs collaboration.
