The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is an internationally renowned public research university and academic medical centre that has more than 22,000 students enrolled, and 24,000 faculty members. UAB generates $12.1 billion in annual economic impact within the State of Alabama.
UAB is committed to empowering its researchers with all of the tools and technologies they need to work as efficiently and effectively as possible. With the rise of containerisation, the university saw an opportunity to further accelerate research by transforming its approach to compute and storage resource management through Kubernetes.
The university is always on the lookout for new ways to support its research community, and so it was keen to empower its users to take full advantage of these container-based capabilities. To make this vision a reality, the organisation turned to its trusted partners Dell Technologies and Canonical.
With Kubernetes, the university would be able to leverage…
