NetApp taps Oz cloud lab for federation exploration
April 26, 2013
Grazed from The Register. Author: Simon Sharwood.
NetApp has approached the University of Melbourne’s Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory, seeking collaboration around the Labs’ research specialties in federated public clouds.
The Reg has learned that senior NetApp employees from outside Australia visited the Lab last February. Now the Lab’s Director, Professor Rajkumar Buyya, has told The Reg those discussions centred on federated cloud functions in the Aneka product offered by a commercial spinout from the Lab called Manjrasoft…
Aneka can provision cloud resources across multiple cloud platforms, be they private or public clouds. Aneka can also act as a cloud broker, automating tasks such as finding the lowest-cost cloud in which to deploy an app or finding cloud resources offering the lowest latency to ensure new customers of SaaS providers get the best possible user experience…
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