Cloud Computing: Reaching New Heights

Recently announced as the one of the first projects to bring cloud computing into the Middle East, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, Qatar University and Texas A&M University have collaborated with IBM to launch the Cloud Computing Center, which will be initially located at Carnegie Mellon University. ""The project is all about virtualization, where we have a large pool of servers and provide clients with virtual machines that run their operating systems as Linux or Windows, thus offering them the software platform they need"", explains Majd Sakr, Carnegie Mellon University's lead on the project.
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By habibalby• 14 Feb 2010 12:18

If there is an opportunity for me to work in this project I will be very glad. I'm a VMware VCP 3.5 and I have much experience in Virtualization

By askme• 25 Feb 2009 10:05

IT is very young here in Qatar, unless government remove the monopoly in IT (business) sectors, there will be no much growth.

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Cloud Computing: Reaching New Heights

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