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Hyderabad, Feb. 2

Yahoo!, the leading free mail service provider and Internet search engine company, has tied up with International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) to take up a key research activity that seeks to enrich cloud computing. Cloud computing is an Internet-based computing where resources are provided over the Net as ‘a service’ to the users, who actually do not need to know about the complex and costly computing procedures. Under the agreement, a group of f ive researchers at IIIT would work on crucial aspects of scheduling (of tasks given to machines that attend to the users’ queries) and security. “We will also address the problem of performance monitoring. It is not possible to manually monitor the performance of these machines. We need to have technological solutions to identify the capabilities of the machines. This will help us predict failures,” Prof. P.J. Narayanan, Dean of Research, and Dr Vasudeva Varma, Associate Professor, at IIIT, told Business Line.

— Our Bureau

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