Recently, computer business IBM and Google, Inc. said they would be developing a program to help promote new computer programming techniques for the processors known as “clouds.”  IBM executive Samuel Palmisano and Google CEO Eric Schmidt announced via telephone interview that they would each be spending $20 - $25 million for hardware, software and services to be used by professors and computer science students.  

“Cloud” computing has recently garnered attention from a lot of major computer businesses such as Microsoft and Sun.  It lets computers in remote data centers run parallel to each other.  The “cloud” concept is able to run a lot of different software applications and be used simultaneously by many users without expanding data centers.  But what about security and reliability?  Those questions still remain as the concept is developed within the computer business.

IBM and Google plan to give 400 computers to colleges throughout the U.S. and then expand to 4,000.  The computers will be available at six universities, the first being University of Washington in Seattle, where these programming abilities within the computer business were first developed.  Carnegie Mellon University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of California at Berkeley and University of Maryland will also be involved.  

Palmisano stated that this concept was developed last December when they realized Google and IBM shared opinions about cloud computing.  This concept is actually the foundation for the Google search system.

Both the companies are concerned that computer science programs will not allow students to learn about important parallel programming techniques.  What also unites them is their rivalry with Microsoft.  Both the computer business Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard have recently stated they are developing their own plans for cloud computing.

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Blogged By:  Computer Consulting Kit