“The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently added Microsoft Azure to their other two cloud providers: AWS and Google Cloud. Some call those providers, “the big three.” NIH calls it a “partnership.”
‘We fund about 2,500 research and academic institutions around the country, with about 300,000 researchers at those institutions,’ said Andrea Norris, the NIH chief information officer and director of the Center for Information Technology…”
“’We’ve moved more than 100 petabytes of research data in just the last couple of years into the cloud, from programs that are being supported across many institutions,’ Norris said on Federal Monthly Insights – Cloud Migration Strategy and Cloud FinOps…”
“’Andrea mentioned a couple of key terms that make up an acronym called FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable,’ Nick Weber, program manager of cloud services, said on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
‘We like to say that we’re going to go FAR before we go FAIR, because that “I” part, the interoperability, is a really challenging one for lots of reasons,’ Weber said…” Read the full article here.
Source: ‘Going FAR before going FAIR,’ while juggling multiple clouds – By Peter Musurlian, October 28, 2021. Federal News Network.
