CERN signs up Rackspace for hybrid cloud collaboration
July 1, 2013
Grazed from CloudPro. Author: Jane McCallion.
CERN openlab has signed a year-long collaboration agreement with Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider Rackspace to develop a hybrid cloud system to help further the centre’s research into the origins of the universe. CERN openlab is the framework through which the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) tests and validates new technologies in partnership with private industry.
Speaking to Cloud Pro, Tim Bell, infrastructure manager at CERN, explained: “[The framework allows] CERN and commercial organisations to do combined research. “This gives us the opportunity to take the extreme computing challenges that come from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and are able to then apply those both to areas of interest to CERN and areas of interest for the company in a research environment.”…
According to the organisations, the collaboration between Rackspace and CERN will create a federated service between the research organisation’s existing OpenStack-powered cloud, and Rackspace’s private and public cloud set-ups…
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