Posted by Steve Lohr on Jul 29, 2008
Yahoo, Hewlett-Packard and Intel announced a research venture on Tuesday that spans the United States, Germany and Singapore. The goal is to advance Internet-scale computing — the proverbial “cloud,” in which more computing chores are delivered to personal computers and cellphones as services, with the heavy computational lifting done remotely in large data centers.
Google and IBM announced a big cloud research initiative last fall, ...
Posted by Roy Bragg on Jul 26, 2008
In the nightmare scenario of Luddites everywhere, The Computers have been entrusted with mankind's accumulated knowledge. All is well until that fateful day when the machines band together, creating a mammoth, all-powerful, living network that thinks, grows and takes over the Earth. Think "The Terminator" or "Colossus: The Forbin Project." These days, the geek buzzword for this is "the Cloud" and the catchphrase is "Cloud computing." First, ...