— Thomas Shaw , Senior Project Manager , STRIDES Initiative

the STRIDES Initiative ’ s mission , whilst also bringing cutting edge biomedical information solutions to the cloud space for NIH-funded research .

Looking ahead to the end of 2020 and the short-term future of STRIDES , Shaw is optimistic that over 100 NIHfunded institutions will have signed up and enrolled in the Initiative , citing a substantial uptick in the usage of cloud resources since the beginning of spring . The reason , he presumes , is the exponential growth of data being generated by facilities within the NIH ecosystem : “ The amount of data has quadrupled in the past year

as interest has increased . I don ’ t see much changing as far as our cloud is concerned , apart from an increase in usage as more and more people use it .” Shaw intimates that the ‘ new normal ’, or the revised attitudes to work in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic , could mean that STRIDES has come along at the perfect time . With remote working and a focus on the practical convenience of digital , organisations have awoken to the benefits of operating in a cloud-based system . Now that the collaborative ecosystem , of which STRIDES anticipated , is starting to become essential to the future of research , Shaw adds that his team ’ s mission will be to optimise and make it as affordable as possible . “ I think , if we develop a superior model , other universities will pick up on the idea and buy into the STRIDES programme . Then , down the road at some point , maybe even corporations will do the same .”

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