GÉANT has signed a partnership agreement with Microsoft to act as network connectivity provider for Microsoft’s Azure ExpressRoutes service. This will help accelerate open research and education in Europe. The agreement connects Microsoft’s cloud services, such as Microsoft Azure, Office...
Amazon waiving data egress charges is a major step forward for use in European research and education. Cloud computing – on-demand delivery of IT resources on a pay-as-you-go basis – offers huge opportunity for millions of users. Its benefits include reduced capital investment, economies...
European research and education organisation GEANT, which operates a 500 Gbps pan-European network, announced that it signed a landmark cloud computing agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Read the whole story at telecompaper.com.
Cloud services giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) rolls out discounts in bid to lower the cost barrier to making scientific discoveries Amazon Web Services (AWS) has agreed to waive some charges the academic and research community must pay to transfer data out of its cloud. As such, the...
European NRENs have joined forces to make cloud services with good conditions of use available to the European education and research community. The outcome of this work is in an online cloud catalogue and joint purchase of cloud services on a European scale. Read more at surf.nl.
