WNC’s Mountain Area Information Network hopes to garner federal broadband stimulus funds in order to establish what it’s calling the nation’s first open-source “Community Cloud Computing” platform — and what’s more, do so for the benefit of those less advantaged: public housing residents, citizens with disabilities, the homeless, at-risk youth, native American and immigrant communities, elderly and other at-risk residents.
Cloud computing allows users access to increased computer power
(software applications, processing power, storage) via the Internet.
That power, in this case, would come from Raleigh-based Red Hat, a
developer of open-source software and innovator in cloud-computing
services, which would partner with MAIN on the project. Read more.
