The benefits of the cloud—scalable implementation, location flexibility, cost savings—have been well discussed over the past few years and generally speaking, there has been an explosion in terms of use - with cloud adoption increasing from 19% to 57% from 2015 to 2016.
For high-risk business processes that drive research and development, the trend for life science research in the cloud has lagged behind and adoption has been slower to ramp up. However, there are many good reasons (beyond just dollars) that can inspire a shift to cloud-based life sciences work spaces.
In the following infographic, we have pulled together some interesting cloud statistics, information and resources to provide a viewpoint on the state of the life sciences cloud. (Please wait for infographic to load)
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Here are some quick stats to tweet:
Only 45% of pharma professionals are using some type of cloud-based tool - Tweet This
Life science organizations create 2.5 Terabytes of data each day. This is equivalent to streaming Netflix movies non-stop for the next 285,000 years - Tweet This
56% of companies who have moved to the cloud have reported increased profits - Tweet This
Maintaining the same data on premise versus the cloud can cost 157% more. - Tweet This
