IBM, Georgia Tech and Ohio State team up for Cloud Computing Research
IBM, Georgia Tech and Ohio State team up for Cloud Computing Research
March 27 Date, 2008: The ribbon has been cut on a joint initiative between IBM, The Georgia Institute of Technology and Ohio State University in an effort to develop autonomic technology for cloud computing.
Cloud computing, or computing based purely online and in the ‘cloud’ is drawing more eyes towards it and todays announcement is set to keep that trend going. Big blue has orchestrated the collaboration with academia in order to enhance the performance and energy use of computing applications while increasing productivity.
"Business environments and supporting technologies have evolved immeasurably since IBM first introduced the Autonomic Computing challenge to the industry in 2001," said Alan Ganek, IBM vice president of Autonomic Computing and CTO of IBM Tivoli Software. "Collaboration with our academic partners will pioneer new areas of research to further integrate autonomic capabilities in computer systems to help reduce the growing complexity of managing data centers in support of businesses' goals."
The project will be run on IBM BladeCenter HS21 servers using Big Blue's own software, with Ohio State focusing on IT processes and management issues while Georgia Tech focuses on distributed service-orientated systems and applications.
"For future virtualized and service-oriented systems within a cloud environment, we contend that without the coordinated use of hardware, operating systems, middleware and applications, it will simply not be possible to meet the demands of tomorrow's critical applications and systems that support them," said Karsten Schwan, CERCS Director at The Georgia Institute of Technology.