14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has recently signed a deal with Janet, the research and education network in the United Kingdom, to provide more than 18 million teachers and students with access to cloud services based on Windows Azure.
The deal was signed at the Goldsmiths University of London, with local staff praising Microsoft’s efforts for their tools and performance.
"In the UK, higher education institutions are fortunate to have high speed network services as provided by Janet," Professor Anne Trefethen, CIO at the University of Oxford, was quoted as saying by Computing.
"The capability afforded by Janet's peering with Microsoft's Azure Cloud with high-bandwidth secure connections creates new opportunities for researchers and the university community as a whole."
As I’ve told you, cloud computing is becoming much more important for the tech giant, so Microsoft will soon open two new data centers in Australia to support the expansion of this kind of services.