HP, Intel and Yahoo! have set the basis of an organization whose purpose is that of creating a global testing environment to promote academic and entrepreneurial research in the field of cloud computing. The test bed will ideally reach a global scale but, for now, only six "centers of excellence," as they were named, will be created. The six include, besides the laboratories of the three founders, the IDA facilities, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Steinbuch Centre for Co...