Cloud computing chums

Opinion
Jul 31, 20081 min

From the IDG News Service:

Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Yahoo are partnering for cloud computing research and education in order to advance the development and adoption of large-scale, data-intensive Internet-hosted applications and related IT infrastructure.

By banding together, the trio of computer industry titans hopes to foster collaboration among vendors, universities and government agencies around cloud computing, whose progress is hampered by “financial and logistical barriers,” the companies said Tuesday.

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Cloud computing is one of those technologies that companies are definitely finding it better to team up on rather than go it alone. Earlier this year, IBM launched a collaborative research effort with two U.S. universities to deliver software for enabling self-managed virtual data centers and automation in cloud computing settings.

launched a collaborative research initiative with two U.S. universities Big Blue says could ultimately deliver software applications that enable self-managing virtual data centers and automation in cloud computing environments.