Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE: RAX), la empresa de open cloud, ha suscrito un acuerdo de colaboración externa con CERN openlab.

Rackspace Hosting has partnered with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), according to AllThingsD. CERN is known for building the Internet 20 years ago. CERN and Rackspace are building a hybrid cloud computing system. A hybrid cloud is when hardware powering the cloud is based in two different places.

At the Geneva-based European organisation for Nuclear Research, better known by its French acronym CERN, physicists are working on projects that chip away at the universe’s mysteries.

Rackspace will deliver a hybrid cloud featuring OpenStack-powered public and private clouds to CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. The Rackspace Private Cloud platform will be deployed onto servers that CERN utilizes for production physics experiments.

Open cloud company Rackspace Hosting has announced it has entered into a contributor agreement with CERN openlab. During the year-long collaboration, Rackspace will deliver a hybrid cloud offering featuring its public and private clouds powered by OpenStack.

SAN ANTONIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE: RAX ) , the open cloud company, today announced it has entered into a contributor agreement with CERN openlab.

CERN openlab is running a pilot hybrid cloud project with Rackspace as the research facility seeks to enable the expansion of its OpenStack environment.

CERN has created openlab, a division aimed at making it possible to test emerging technologies that can help researchers. The division is coming up thanks to a partnership between CERN and Rackspace Hosting.

The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) is partnering with Rackspace to do some epic number crunching on the cloud.

As announced on the Rackspace blog, the company is collaborating with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) on what's described as "an amazing mission," focused on OpenStack. CERN operates the world’s largest particle physics laboratory and its research has uncovered some of the mysteries of the universe.