NIH STRIDES Initiative 

 

The National Institutes of Health has launched a new initiative to harness the power of commercial cloud computing. The STRIDES (Science and Technology Research Infrastructure for Discovery, Experimentation, and Sustainability) Initiative has partnered with Carahsoft to bring on Google Cloud as its first commercial cloud industry partner.

This agreement will build a cost efficient framework for biomedical researchers at NIH as well as the more than 2,500 research institutions across the country that receive NIH support. This partnership will involve collaboration with NIH’s Data Commons Pilot to lift economic and technological barriers to storing, accessing, and computing on large biomedical data sets in the cloud.

Why Google?

Future Proof Infrastructure 
Secure, high performance, global, cost-effective and constantly improving. We’ve built our cloud for the long haul.

Powerful Data and Analytics 
Tap into big data and machine learning to find answer faster, and build better products and fuel amazing applications.

Severless, Fully Managed Computing 
Grow from prototype to production without having to think about capacity, reliability, or performance.

Customer Friendly Pricing
Our pricing innovations like per-second billing and sustained use discounts save you money. As we improve the efficiency of our infrastructure, we pass the cost savings to you.

Data Center Innovation
Google’s backbone network has thousands of miles of fiber optic cable, uses advanced software defined networking and has edge caching services to deliver fast, consistent, and scalable performance.

Security at Scale
Deploy on an infrastructure protected by more than 700 top experts in information, application and network security.

What's Included

Compute
From virtual machines with proven price/performance advantages to a fully managed app development platform.

Storage and Databases
Scalable, resilient, high performance object storage and databases for your applications

Networking
State-of-the-art software defined networking products on Google’s private fiber network.

Big Data
Fully managed data warehousing, batch and stream processing, data exploration, Hadoop/Spark, and reliable messaging.

Data Transfer
Online and offline transfer solutions for moving data quickly and securely.

Internet of Things
Intelligent IoT platform that unlocks business insights from your global device network.

Machine Learning
Fast, scalable, easy to use ML services. Use our pre-trained models or train custom models on your data.

Managment Tools
Monitoring, logging, and diagnostics and more, all in an easy to use web management console or mobile app

Developer Tools
Develop and deploy your applications using our command-line interfaces and other developer tools.

Identity and Security
Control access and visibility to resources running on a platform protected by Google’s security model.

Google NIH Resources

Google for STRIDES

As an NIH STRIDES Initiative partner, your NIH-funded researchers can access Google Cloud platform to begin advancing data discoveries and research initiatives. Scalable tools such as Compute Engine virtual machines, BigQuery, and TensorFlow will enable you to perform rapid analysis and scale with ease. Read More.


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