Google and IBM converge on cloud computing

Google and IBM are teaming up to promote cloud computing to universities and share their thoughts on how cloud computing will become effective in the future. These companies say the goal will help students to improve their knowledge about computer practices and increase awareness in the real world, such as search engines.

Both companies plan to provide at least a hundred computers to give to the universities with a combination of "IBM BladeCenter and G-machine"that will be the main server. These servers will have open-source software that students can access the internet to learn more about cloud computing and gain insight about IBM and Google build-in websites, hopefully students will be able to gain the knowledge to meet today's challenges for tomorrow future.

There are only a handful of universities that will part-take in this collaboration with IBM and Google. The University of Washington, Carnegie-Mellow university, MIT, Standford university, the University of California and the University of Maryland. The outlook is for IBM and Google to expand the familiarity as to what to expect in the future to come about cloud computing.

"An example of one of the projects that has already been performed on the cluster, Google says that University of Washington students were able to use the cluster to scan the millions of edits made to Wikipedia in order to identify spam and organize news by geographic location."

After IBM and Google collaborates with the universities above, they are expecting more universities to jump on board to learn about cloud computing and hopefully. This will be the turning point for a new way of social networking and scientific computational.

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