A need to share research data at a publicly funded medical school is being met by a creative Kubernetes-based approach.

At the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, a research-intensive medical school in New York City, funding from the National Institutes of Health required the school to share its data. So, it turned to IBM Corp. for a solution using a container-native hybrid cloud data platform for Kubernetes.

“We have to comply with rules that say, ‘Make your data sharable,’ and that includes the computational code that we have,” said Shailesh Shenoy (pictured, left), assistant dean of information technology and senior staff scientist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. “We’re running OpenShift in IBM Fusion HCI. That hyperconverged environment allows up to bring in the technology quickly, deploy it quickly and then be able to maintain it very easily.”

Shenoy spoke with theCUBE industry analysts John Furrier and Rob Strechay at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. He was joined by Pete Brey (right), global product executive at IBM, and they discussed how IBM’s technology is helping the medical college to meet its research requirements. (* Disclosure below.)

Building resilience

Medical data is critical data, so a resilient solution is also a key element in how Einstein College is leveraging IBM’s hyperconverged platform.

“There’s a wide range of solutions that his team is going to be using to deliver that resilience that they need,” Brey said. “Things like backup and recovery, which you might think is a very basic thing, but when you start thinking about it in a Kubernetes context, there’s some things that you really need to think about. What’s really interesting to see that they’re doing right now is using multiple sites to deliver the resilience that they need for their researchers.”

IBM’s solution provides a view into the technology future for research institutions such as Albert Einstein College, where containers and Kubernetes will play an increasingly more significant role.

“What I envision in the research community … is that every researcher will have a container the moment they walk into the institution, and then they’ll use that as a way to share what they’re doing with the community,” Shenoy said.

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA:

(* Disclosure: IBM Corp. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither IBM nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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