project that gives university students, professors, and other
researchers anytime, anywhere access to some of IBM's leading business
software via cloud computing.
Cloud computing is an emerging compute model for delivering and
consuming IT capabilities as a service. This Tools as a Service (TaaS)
technology showcase, which enables researchers to have 24/7 access to
IBM's WebSphere Integration Developer and Rational Software Architect
over the Internet, is a major milestone for the IBM Canada Centre for
Advanced Studies and its partners in the Centre of Excellence for
Research in Adaptive Systems (CERAS).
Early adopters of this pilot include the University of Waterloo, York
University, Queen's University, University of Toronto, Carleton
University, the Ontario Cancer Institute, and developers from the IBM
Canada software lab.
This Tools as a Service initiative will provide the participating
research institutions with tremendous productivity increases, along
with cost, and energy savings. The researchers will have access to
some of the latest enterprise software securely without needing to
upgrade their own hardware systems or expand their data centers, and
without the need for on-site expertise to install and get the tools
running. TaaS provides the end user with sufficient computing
resources to use the software, regardless of the capability of their
own hardware. TaaS is able to preserve users' data from their last
session and restore it so they can continue from where they left off
with the software tools.
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