BU Researchers on Team to Move Cybersecurity from Theory to Practice Article appeared on BU Today 08.01.2014 By Art Jahnke The Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC), a one-of-a-kind marketplace model for customizable public cloud offerings now being built a team of researchers from BU and several other universities, may soon claim another first: a modular cybersecurity system built from […]
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program announced a $10 million Frontier award to Boston University’s Modular Approach to Cloud Security (MACS) project. MACS is one of two new center-scale “Frontier” awards to support large, multi-institution projects that address grand challenges in cybersecurity science and engineering with the potential for broad economic and scientific impact. […]
Today, the cloud infrastructure market is dominated by several big companies – Amazon, Google and Microsoft — but a public/business/academia partnership called the Massachusetts Open Cloud project is hoping to change that by creating an open computing marketplace where you can negotiate whatever services you need from multiple infrastructure vendors. Peter Desnoyers, a professor at Northeastern University who helped […]
With Massachusetts pledging $3 million in state support, BU leaders in April announced plans for development of a path-breaking computing cloud that could spur economic growth and technology innovation. The plan calls for hosting the MOC at the MGHPCC data center, where it would tap the computational power of BU and its MOC partners, who […]
How much does an “open” cloud cost? The Massachusetts state government is willing to invest $3 million in Boston University’s (BU) concept of a truly open cloud, one the institution hopes will spur positive change marketwide. Can this initiative really compete with offerings from big providers like Amazon, Google and IBM, or is it just another […]
On May 15, 2014, Orran Krieger (Lead Investigator of the MOC project) co-presented the concept and plans for the Massachusetts Open Cloud at the OpenStack Summit, which was held in Atlanta May 14-16, 2014. The MOC is a new, non-profit public cloud created in Massachusetts. It will be the product of collaboration between the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, five […]
Although initially intended for research collaboration, the ultimate goal is for MOC to develop into an independent non-profit, which the Commonwealth hopes will serve as a way to help strengthen its competitive position by: Strengthening opportunities for data science education and training Increasing regional talent retention and industry recruiting success Expanding access to open and […]
Governor Patrick Launches Open Cloud Computing Project In Holyoke By Paul Tuthill of WAMC Northeast Public Radio on April 25, 2014
Northeastern University is a key partner in the Massachusetts Open Cloud Project, a university-industry collaboration designed to create a new public cloud computing infrastructure to spur big data innovation. Last month, at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center in Holyoke, Massachusetts—which counts Northeastern as a partner institution—Gov. Deval Patrick announced a $3 million investment […]
By Tiffany Trader. Published in HPC Wire on April 28, 2014. On Friday, in the Western Massachusetts town of Holyoke, Governor Deval Patrick and officials from industry, government and academia joined together for the official launch of a $3 million capital investment, known as the Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC) project. The public-private initiative will establish a new […]