Cloud Computing offers many compelling benefits to Life Sciences organizations such as better agility, reduced cost via the pay-for-use resource model and improved data exchange between geographically dispersed research and clinical collaborators.  However, one of the key challenges for this industry is the amount of time it takes to move very large amounts of data into and out of cloud environments.  In fact, many organizations continue to rely on shipping physical disks in order to exchange data due to inherent problems with commodity 1 Gb Ethernet networks and TCP inefficiencies.