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.
The NOAA Cloud Initiative provides enterprise-level, commercial Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) to support NOAA business and mission operations utilizing multiple cloud service providers (CSPs).