Organization: Ontario Centres of Excellence

IBM and OCE launch cloud computing pilot

IBM, the Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) and several Ontario-based universities and health institutes are participating in a pilot project to deliver anywhere, anytime access to IBM’s proprietary business software via cloud computing – an emerging compute model for delivering and consuming information technology capabilities as a service. The software — IBM’s WebSphere Integration Developer…

Precarn boosts funding for small business program

Precarn Inc is doubling the size of its Small Business Program with a $2-million investment aimed at companies with revenue between $500,000 and $10 million. The new funding adds to the program which was launched earlier this year (R$, February 28/06) and will support six-to-eight projects. Precarn is also participating in a joint project to…