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New England US State of Massachusetts Establishes Open Cloud

December 17, 2013
by Staff Writer

New England US state of Massachusetts has established an OpenStack and Red Hat-based Open Cloud with the aim of establishing a regional hub for "big data" research. The Commonwealth has partnered with high tech companies and research universities located in the Boston area to manage the endeavor.

The project offers smaller companies a cloud platform they can use to develop their technology, saving them from excessive investment in the area. Hosted by Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center in Holyoke, Massachusetts, and funded by the state, companies like Cisco Systems, and Boston and Harvard Universities, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Northeastern and the University of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC) will develop a marketplace where hardware capacity, software and services are purchased and resold.

MOC services will include Infrastructure-as-a-Service-based access to virtual machines alongside application development and cloud-based big data platform services. It will also enable startups to offer hardware or software services giving broader exposure to their products and services. Participants are responsible for operating services and are free to establish their own cost framework.

A number of projects currently utilize the Open Cloud, including Boston University’s Engineering Department who are deploying a test cloud.

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