IBM and OCE launch cloud computing pilot

IBM, the Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) and several Ontario-based universities and health institutes are participating in a pilot project to deliver anywhere, anytime access to IBM's proprietary business software via cloud computing – an emerging compute model for delivering and consuming information technology capabilities as a service. The software — IBM's WebSphere Integration Developer and Rational Software Architect — will be deployed over the Internet and will be available 24/7. The project is the result of collaboration between IBM's Canada Centre for Advanced Studies and partners in the Centre of Excellence for Research in Adaptive Systems (CERAS). Called Tools as a Service, the pilot offers participants secure access to enterprise software and sufficient computing resources regardless of their own hardware. The pilot's institutional partners to date are Univ of Waterloo, Carleton Univ, York Univ, Queen's Univ, Univ of Toronto, and the Ontario Cancer Institute….