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IT Trends :: Thursday, March 23, 2006

  • 03/22/06

DEALS, CONTRACTS, AWARDS

Anna University-Microsoft Strategic Allegiance

Microsoft is granting access to all of its development tools for use by Anna University's faculty and staff in India. Through this new partnership, the school hopes to improve its technical education abilities and increase employment rates for graduates. (Chennai Online News)
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Amazon Provides Hosted Storage Service

The University of California now uses Amazon.com’s new S3 service to save 60 million images at 15 cents per gigabyte per month. The service runs on top of the storage infrastructure on which Amazon runs its own Web sites and offers 99.99% availability. (Computerworld)
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