Google and I.B.M. Cloud Joint

John "butter/oreo" Bajana-Bacall writes: "Last we saw our two favorite juggernauts they were dicing and crunching data and technology. All good and well save universities are behind the curve in cloud computing. Jovian data crunching and sifting is what all Net services are in essence, Google is the poster child — while IBM provides the "deep" knowledge to make it happen for you. However, the state of the art is in the business world and not in academia. Boding poorly for companies in vital use or in provision of the technology. Seminal new ideas, concepts, theories are not forthcoming from learned research. Lacking behemoth computing facilities, with accompanying software tools and expensive maintenance staffing addition to large funding support has been the culprit for the backward state. Thus ``the two companies ... have committed a total of $30 million over two years'' for a project to build two data centers accessible to participating students over the Internet, to program and conduct research remotely. Wao. ``The centers will run an open-source version of Google's data center software, and I.B.M. is contributing open-source tools to help students write Internet programs and data center management software,'' writes the Times. BTW, there is no topic heading for cloud computing."