Challenge The Van Andel Institute (VAI), based in Grand Rapids, Mich., is nonprofit biomedical research and science education organization that is primarily focused on the origins of cancer, Parkinson’s and other diseases and translating those findings into effective therapies. The organization employs 330 scientists, educators and staff, and because of the nature of its research, VAI’s computing needs are relatively advanced. According to Daniel Chow, Silicon Mechanic’s CTO/COO and a regular columnist for ComputerWorld, “we are just now starting to see an uptick in hybrid cloud usage amongst the research community. It is because of pioneers like Ramjan that the scientific computing will continue to grow in these avenues with in-house solutions often seen in the enterprise c

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