Kidney Research Reconfirms Cloud’s Importance

Cloud Tweaks


The National Kidney Registry has embraced cloud computing as a critical component of its mission to streamline and improve its organ matching processes. The NKR’s primary matching system, known as SMELAC, was recently relocated to Microsoft Windows Azure, in a move to significantly quicken the pace of processing new organ match-related data. MarketWire reports that Azure has boosted SMELAC’s computing capacity by 400%, fast enough to allow for researchers to synchronize their efforts in producing a new organ match.

Organizations from disciplines with precious and sensitive data, such as banks and hospitals, have typically been shy to engage with cloud computing and its inherent risk in data privacy and protection. Yet the National Kidney Registry’s decision to nevertheless move to cloud serves as a precedent that critical-data institutions and the new IT move can harmonize.

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