The Cloud Expands

Google is moving to advance network services in Taiwan. They are cooperating with National Taiwan University and Chiao Tung University.

Most conventional software applications have been designed for processing data and computing in a PC environment, said Christophe Bisciglia, Google’s senior software engineer and key promoter of Google’s Cloud Computing project. Along with the fast increasing availability of broadband Internet bandwidth, Cloud Computing aims to break the limitation of the capacity of PCs by storing software programs and data as well as executing data processing and computing in a Web world, a cloud of computers/servers with a multitude of programs and data files, Bisciglia pointed out.

To meet the requirements of Cloud Computing for Internet-based data storage and parallel processing/computing, the design logic of software based on PC architecture should be modified and/or rebuilt, Chien indicated. This is the core of the cooperation, and Google will provide materials and experts to help university professors train students beginning in February 2008, Chien pointed out.

In addition to the two universities in Taiwan, Google will cooperate with a university in China and another in Israel, Chien noted.

Google’s first off-shore cooperation in Taiwan could be related to a recent report that Google plans to set up its largest data center outside of the US in Taiwan, according to industry sources. In response, Chien declined to comment.

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