About the NIH STRIDES Initiative
As described on the NIH STRIDES website, the NIH Science and Technology Research Infrastructure for Discovery, Experimentation, and Sustainability (STRIDES) Initiative allows NIH to explore the use of cloud environments to streamline NIH data use by partnering with commercial providers.
NIH-funded researchers with an active NIH award may take advantage of the STRIDES Initiative for their NIH-funded research projects. Eligible investigators include awardees of NIH contracts, other transaction agreements, grants, cooperative agreements, and other agreements.
Benefits of using the STRIDES Initiative as a vehicle to access STRIDES Initiative partners include:
Discounts on STRIDES Initiative partner services—Favorable pricing on computing, storage, and related cloud services for NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices (ICOs) and NIH-funded institutions.
Professional services—Access to professional service consultations and technical support from the STRIDES Initiative partners.
Training—Access to training for researchers, data owners, and others to help ensure optimal use of available tools and technologies.
Potential collaborative engagements—Opportunities to explore methods and approaches that may advance NIH’s biomedical research objectives (with scope and milestones of engagements agreed upon separately).
NIH STRIDES at Yale
As an NIH-funded institution, Yale has established relationships with suppliers able to enroll researchers with NIH grants in the STRIDES Initiative to use either Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
NIH STRIDES for AWS
Yale has established a relationship with Four Points Technology to provide STRIDES Initiative services for the AWS cloud.