Cloudscape VI came to a close just moments ago. The event, which was held at the Microsoft Centre in Brussels, Belgium, featured much discussion of the legal aspects of cloud computing, as well as the potential benefits of cloud computing for both business and scientific research.

According to Guardian newspaper The Nobel prize for Physics will be announced tomorrow, October 8, 2013.

Rackspace has disclosed that its collaboration with CERN openlab on multi-cloud environments has borne fruit with the resulting code being included in the latest Icehouse build of the OpenStack cloud framework.

Rackspace has disclosed that its collaboration with CERN openlab on multi-cloud environments has borne fruit with the resulting code being included in the latest Icehouse build of the OpenStack cloud framework.

IT scale, big data challenges and high-throughput compute needs are of a different order of magnitude altogether for CERN, the organisation that aims to find out what the universe is made of by conducting experiments in its Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) has contributed code to the latest OpenStack release called Icehouse.

Rackspace's involvement with OpenStack and CERN at the Large Hadron Collider surfaced again late last month when the cloud hosting provider staged a London-based gathering to discuss what, when and where its cloud hosting intelligence is being deployed.