NY Times: The Virtuous Competition in Cloud Computing Research

"One more sign that we’ve entered the cloud computing era: the big corporate players are competing with each other to rev up academic research initiatives (partly with an eye toward wooing future computer scientists to work for them, of course).

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 ...."

For the full article written by Steve Lohr, go to The Virtuous Competition in Cloud Computing Research.