on August 9th, 26, Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, first put forward the concept of "cloud computing" at SES San Jose 26.
Google's "cloud computing" originated from the "Google 11" project by Google engineer Christopher Bisciglia.
in October, 27, Google and IBM began to promote the plan of cloud computing in American university campuses, including Carnegie Mellon University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley and University of Maryland, hoping to reduce the cost of distributed computing technology in academic research. And provide related software and hardware equipment and technical support for these universities (including hundreds of personal computers and BladeCenter and System x servers, these computing platforms will provide 16 processors and support open source platforms including Linux, Xen and Hadoop).
Students can develop various research plans based on large-scale computing through the Internet.
on January 3th, 28, Google announced the launch of "Cloud Computing Academic Program" in Taiwan Province, which will cooperate with Taiwan University, Jiaotong University and other schools to promote this advanced large-scale and fast computing technology to the campus.
on February 1st, 28, IBM(NYSE: IBM) announced that it would establish the world's first cloud computing center for software companies in China in Taihu New Town Science and Education Industrial Park, Wuxi, China.
on July 29th, 28, Yahoo, Hewlett-Packard and Intel announced a joint research plan covering the United States, Germany and Singapore, and launched a cloud computing research test bed to promote cloud computing.
The plan is to create six data centers with partners as research and experimental platforms, and each data center is equipped with 1,4 to 4, processors.
These partners include Singapore Information and Communication Development Authority, Steinbuch Computing Center of Karlsruhe University in Germany, University of Illinois at Champion, Intel Research Institute, HP Labs and Yahoo.
on August 3, 28, the information on the website of the U.S. patent and trademark office showed that Dell was applying for the trademark of "Cloud puting", which was aimed at strengthening the reshaping technology for this future.
in November, 29, the first cloud computing industry association in China was established in Shenzhen. The establishment of the association marked the confidence of local governments in developing the cloud computing industry.
on March 5th, 21, Novell and CSA)*** * announced a vendor-neutral plan called Trusted Cloud Initiative.
in July, 21, NASA and supporting vendors including Rackspace, AMD, Intel and Dell announced the "OpenStack" open source program, and in October, 21, Microsoft expressed its support for the integration of OpenStack and Windows Server 28 R2. Ubuntu has added OpenStack to version 11.4.
in February p>211, Cisco system officially joined OpenStack, focusing on developing OpenStack's network services.