DreamWorks pens cloud deal

DreamWorks SKG has signed a multi-year deal with Cerelink for cloud computing access, writes Channel Register.

Instead of rendering movies like 'How To Train Your Dragon' on thousands of its own computer cores, DreamWorks will use elastic computer resources housed in Cerelink's supercomputing-class facility at the New Mexico Applications Centre.

'Elastic' cloud computing allows clients like DreamWorks SKG to dynamically adjust technical capacity to meet their real-time business needs.

CA Technologies outlined plans to expand its cloud-computing security strategy, including immediate support for Google Docs by its CA Identity Manager product, reports SF Gate.

The on-premises enterprise product CA Identity Manager, originally designed to exert identity and access management controls solely for internal resources, has already been expanded to support Salesforce.com apps.

This gives enterprises using CA Identity Manager a way to exert the same credentialing and authorisation security controls in the Salesforce.com and Google Apps environments as they do internally under the centrally managed on-premises system.

IBM Poland says it will partner with the Wrocław University of Technology to develop Poland's first multipurpose cloud computing centre, according to a report by Polish Market Online, Web Host states.

The university will initiate a new research programme offering courses for over 1 500 students.

"The centre is to develop new educational programmes using existing and nascent technologies which will allow Polish students to compete on the global labour market," Paweł Panecki, director of software department at IBM Polska says.