Irish Govt injects €5m into IC4 cloud computing research centre at DCU
November 26, 2012
Grazed from SiliconRepublic. Author: John Kennedy.
With the intention of turning ideas into new start-ups and jobs, Ireland’s Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton, TD, has unveiled the new €5m Irish Centre for Cloud Computing and Commerce (IC4) at DCU. The purpose of the new centre is to accelerate the development and adoption of cloud computing in Ireland.
The IC4 operation is jointly supported by Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland and is the 11th Government-funded technology centre to be established in Ireland. The centre is also guided by an industry panel including Fujitsu, Intel, IBM and Microsoft. It will be based at DCU but will be supported with additional research capabilities from UCC and Athlone Institute of Technology…
“Cloud computing is already a significant part of the overall market for information technology and services and is now one of the fastest-growing segments of the market,” Bruton said in announcing the IC4 centre…
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