{"id":3706,"date":"2014-07-03T11:19:27","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T15:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/?p=3706"},"modified":"2014-07-26T00:56:39","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T04:56:39","slug":"techcrunch-moc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/2014\/07\/03\/techcrunch-moc\/","title":{"rendered":"TechCrunch: MOC Project Hopes To Create Ad-Hoc Infrastructure Marketplace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, the cloud infrastructure market is dominated by several big companies \u2013\u00a0Amazon, Google and Microsoft \u2014 but a public\/business\/academia partnership called the\u00a0Massachusetts Open Cloud\u00a0project\u00a0is hoping to change that by creating an open computing marketplace where you can negotiate whatever services you need from multiple infrastructure vendors.<\/p>\n

Peter Desnoyers, a professor at Northeastern University who helped launch the project, explained that while companies like Amazon offer useful services, they have limitations.<\/p>\n

First of all, from an academic perspective, they have a closed system. That means their internal team has access to the system for research purposes, but anyone outside the company like academics who want to study the system and present papers are shut out. While they can go to company conferences and hear employees present papers, they can\u2019t get deep inside\u00a0the system and that\u2019s a real problem for him and his fellow academics.<\/p>\n

The other is that Amazon and other IaaS vendors offer what he calls the \u201cHenry Ford\u201d approach to IaaS. You can have any color you want as long it\u2019s black. In other words, they have certain products they have packaged together. The trouble with this\u00a0approach though, Desnoyers explained, is that people often have very specialized requirements, and the way Amazon designs\u00a0its products shuts those people out or makes it prohibitively expensive if they need specialized services.<\/p>\n

Desnoyers says that the project hopes to create a marketplace where multiple vendors can come together and offer their services in an ad-hoc kind of way, so you might get your compute power from one vendor, your storage from a second and your memory from a third. The vendors seem like to this approach and include industry heavyweights Cisco, Juniper, Intel, Red Hat and others.<\/p>\n

The colleges involved include Harvard, MIT, UMass Amherst, Boston University and Northeastern.<\/p>\n

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is also involved and the project will be housed at the\u00a0Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center\u00a0in Holyoke, Mass.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Today, the cloud infrastructure market is dominated by several big companies \u2013\u00a0Amazon, Google and Microsoft \u2014 but a public\/business\/academia partnership called the\u00a0Massachusetts Open Cloud\u00a0project\u00a0is 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8550,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11716,11723],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3706"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3840,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3706\/revisions\/3840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}