Case Study: Australian National University achieves faster genome-scale research and secure global collaboration with Microsoft Teams

Australian National University pioneers the next generation of genomics research by moving to the cloud

Australian National University turned to Microsoft Teams and the wider Microsoft cloud ecosystem to tackle rapidly growing genomics datasets and the heavy burden of managing on‑premises infrastructure. Researchers in the John Curtin School of Medical Research needed scalable compute, flexible storage, and secure collaboration tools to run genome‑scale analyses and share results with global collaborators, so ANU partnered with BizData and Microsoft Australia to migrate workflows to Microsoft Azure while using Microsoft Teams and Office 365 for collaboration.

By moving pipelines into Azure and leveraging Microsoft Teams for secure, real‑time collaboration, the vendor ecosystem enabled on‑demand compute and hybrid HPC workflows that delivered measurable gains: four times the computational power for half the cost, a 50–75% reduction in time spent on technical setup, and analyses that now run in hours instead of weeks. Microsoft Teams helped accelerate sharing and collaboration, speeding publication and allowing researchers to focus far more on analysis than infrastructure.

Australian National University