bengaluru in an initiative aimed at developing new technologies that could prove useful in addressing problems across fields like agriculture and healthcare to a variety of businesses the indian institute of science iisc and ibm will build a host of solutions and tools including selfhealing computing systems at a new opensource innovation lab they envisage would see large scale public participation in the futurewhatever is built at the ibmiisc hybrid cloud lab located at iisc will be available in open source gargi dasgupta chief technology officer ibm indiasouth asia and director ibm research india and prof navakanta bhat dean division of interdisciplinary sciences iisc told toi in an exclusive interviewthe lab will serve as a hub for fostering the exchange of ideas not just for the members of the two institutions but also for the research and industry community in the region it will start with an initial set of projects involving iisc faculty and students from departments of computational and data sciences computer science and automation and supercomputing education and research iisc and ibm said in an announcementgargi while pointing out how recent research has shown that enterprises are more likely to choose a hybrid multicloud platform rather than get locked into a single service provider said that if this was important for businesses then there will be a host of research questions that need to be answered that is why it is important that we have this partnership the coming together of research scholars faculty students and ibm researchers she saidbhat said given that all aspects of life today are connected to digital infrastructure the kind of data that we accumulate going forward will be huge unimaginable from personal data entertainment images videos to health vitals etc to enterprise data everything is going to be on cloud and managing this needs the right architecture for which rd is very importantfor instance we anticipate every city even smaller ones to become smart going forward and those efforts will be data driven essentially all kinds of data will be integrated where are the traffic lights are they enough where are the existing hospitals where should new ones come up and so on all of this would need a sophisticated cloud infrastructure given that there will be heterogeneity of data how do you manage all of this moving from one cloud to another seamlessly well deal with challenges like this bhat saidfor this the lab will focus on four core areas first building autonomous selfhealing computing systems that use artificial intelligence ai to predict emerging issues diagnose and heal faults while maximizing availability and minimizing the cost of operations second adopting microservices and optimization of cloudnative applications that leverage and advance cloudnative technologies that enable enterprises bring substantial agility and drive new cloudenabled models third creating aibased information management that enables enterprises to govern consume draw insights and create value from data across a hybrid footprint and fourth developing ai systems that can analyze human and machine languages with advances in