Bursting borders: the case for a European cloud
- Article 3 of 3
- JISC Inform, July 2011
JISC Inform spoke to JISC's executive secretary Malcolm Read about how European organisations are coming together to pool brainpower and technology for a future in the cloud
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Although it's early days for e-InfraNet, in the long term it has the potential to make computing power just another utility, like water or electricity, for every HE body and student in Europe. It will reduce costs, make services available to researchers and students that would not otherwise have been available, and make data - whether experimental or even just lecture notes from other universities - openly available to students and researchers who need them. A lot of work is going to be needed and a lot of details sorted out, but the future is in the cloud.
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