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June 15, 2011

Quantix Selected as Hosting Provider for IDBS-Led UK Cancer Research Project


Quantix, the UK-based provider of Application managed services, managed cloud services and infrastructure solutions for enterprises and independent software vendors, recently announced that it has been chosen as one of the members of a consortium formed by the UK’s national innovation agency, the Technology Strategy Board. Sponsored by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), the Technology Strategy Board works to fuel economic growth by fostering innovation. The board aims to bring together business, research and the public sector to accelerate the development of innovative products and services to meet market needs, tackle major societal challenges and help build the future economy.

As the consortium’s Oracle hosting and managed services provider, Quantix will be responsible for delivering a cloud-based Oracle platform to support medicine research and cross-organizational collaboration.

The other members of the consortium include well known cancer research centers, Kings Health Partners and Manchester Academic Health Science Center. The consortium will be led by IDBS, a key player in the area of enterprise data management, analytics and modeling solutions.

With escalating healthcare costs, organizations are taking interest in collaborative efforts to support stratified medicines as a means to deliver safe and cost-effective treatments. This project will allow leading cancer centers across the UK to identify patient populations and develop a better understanding of genetic drivers for cancer, to improve cancer care and deliver more effective drugs and diagnostics.

The cost-effective, cloud-based platform is designed to facilitate an unprecedented collaboration between organizations throughout medical research and industry. The other benefits of a cloud-based platform include multi-site delivery, secure integration into other IT systems, and a huge capacity for data storage which offers on-demand scalability and inherent high availability with built-in resiliency and backup. The collaboration is expected to take the UK’s research activities to the next level.

As longtime partners, Quantix and IDBS jointly implemented several projects in the past. Quantix provides IDBS with a fully managed hosting solution, which enables IDBS to deliver software applications to their clients through a SaaS model.

As the cloud hosting service provider, Quantix will bring its experience of provisioning complex applications via a SaaS delivery model and extensive expertise of Oracle software.  Coupled with IDBS’s pioneering application environments, the Quantix hosting platform is going to be a unique cloud hosting offering. The platform has been designed to provide the infrastructure for multiple organizations within the health science industry to support secure stratified medical research and collaboration including data handling, storage, retrieval and analysis services which will gather and integrate data from a wide variety of different organizations and sources, Quantrix claimed in a press release.

“Quantix is extremely proud to be a part of such a significant project – not only does it highlight the benefits of our cloud computing solutions, our expertise with Oracle software, and the strength of the application hosting platform we have developed, but it also demonstrates the wider advantages to UK industry and the medical research communities which our platform, and cloud-based platforms can offer,” Simon Goodenough, sales and marketing director of Quantix, noted in a statement.

IDBS recently unveiled the Biomolecular Hub, a comprehensive data management solution for Omics data and analysis results. The Biomolecular Hub enables researchers to manage the large volumes of Omic data inside and outside their organization, giving unprecedented views of their Omic research data landscape to streamline molecular analysis and improve genomic collaboration, the company explained in a press release.


Madhubanti Rudra is a contributing editor for HealthTechZone. To read more of her articles, please visit her columnist page.
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