IBM, Google fund cloud computing teaching techniques

IBM and Google are each shelling out between $20 million and $25 million to start college programs focused on cloud computing.

According to the Wall Street Journal and New York Times both Big Blue and Google have a shared vision on cloud computing. The vision goes like this: Run multiple data centers in parallel and allow users to share resources. Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard and others all have a similar vision of computing in the cloud.

IBM and Google will at first offer 400 computers to teach cloud computing techniques. The duo plans to expand to 4,000. So far, six universities--University of Washington, Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Stanford, University of California at Berkeley and the University of Maryland--are participating.