Friday, February 10th, 2012 9:16 am

Cloud computing: 13 projects receive grants

Arlington (ip-192.com): 13 individual researchers and research groups have been selected to receive free access to advanced cloud computing that will enable faster, less expensive processing across geographically distributed data centers. The recently announced award is the result of a collaborative cloud computing agreement between The National Science Foundation (NSF) and Microsoft. Under the agreement, [...]

Windows Azure: Novell, Microsoft team up

Waltham (ip-192.com): Novell has joined the Microsoft Windows Azure Technology Adoption Program to address cloud security challenges through the Novell Cloud Security Service. Novell says that it will work with Microsoft on pre-release, non-commercial, internal testing and validation of Novell Cloud Security Service on Windows Azure with a goal to deliver a consistent access, security [...]

Microsoft: New cloud-computing alliances

Redmond (ip-192.com): Microsoft will work with eBay to create the next generation infrastructure and develop a private cloud technology. The private cloud will not compete with its current public cloud Azure, Microsoft said. It will be used to accommodate online transactions as well as private data not suitable for a public cloud environment. "The Windows [...]