BBC

"Chip giant Intel is teaming up with web firm Yahoo and hardware company HP to create virtual research centres for cloud computing. Cloud computing offers online storage and promises a range of new services for data and devices that are plugged into the cloud.

Initially six data centres will be available for pre-selected researchers to test new applications. Research firm Gartner has dubbed cloud computing as influential as e-business.

"Cloud computing represents a new era of computing. Working at that kind of scale means there will be many unanswered questions and raise new problems for computer science," said John Manley, director of HP's strategic research lab."

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