WASHINGTON DC - Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The University of Texas at San Antonio, and the University of Notre Dame are working with Internet2 and Rackspace Hosting to build an OpenStack-based hybrid cloud environment for the research and education community. The new Internet2 NET+ services are expected to be available to other
BATTLE CREEK - The Corn Marketing Program of Michigan, Michigan Soybean Promotion Committee and Michigan Wheat Program are collaborating on a new event for crop farmers in the Great Lakes Region, called the Great Lakes Crop Summit, scheduled for Jan. 22-24, 2014, at FireKeepers Hotel and Casino. The inaugural summit for crop farmers will feature
PETOSKEY - Verizon Wireless' Petoskey store is one of 100 in the nation and the second Smart Store in Michigan to open this year. The company unveiled its first ?Destination Store? Tuesday at The Mall of America in Minnesota. The initiative, combined with the redesign of 1,700 company-owned retail stores during the next few years
DETROIT - Compuware Corp. added two new board members Thursday. Joining the board were Jeffrey J. Clarke, managing partner at Augusta Columbia Capital Inc., a New York City-based tech-focused private equity firm, and Jennifer J. Raab, president of Hunter College, the largest college in the City University of New York system. Leaving the board are
LANSING - Liquid Web has launched a product unique to its own cloud hosting, Storm Platform, called Storm Private Cloud, which allows users to purchase a server and, rather than deploying a single large instance, split it into multiple virtual instances, thereby creating a cloud environment of their own. Liquid Web claims the development was
MATTAWAN ? William Parfet, MPI Research Chairman and CEO, has been inducted into the Financial Executives International Hall of Fame. Parfet founded MPI Research in 1995 and, under his leadership, the company has become one of the top CROs in the world. He has also held executive positions at Richard-Allan Medical and The Upjohn Company
LANSING - A survey says 98.37 percent of Michigan residents now have access to broadband speeds of 10 megabits per seconds download and 1.5 megabits per second upload, a 2 percent increase from the 95.89 percent reported in April 2013. The report came from Connect Michigan to celebrate GIS Day ? geographic information systems used
ANN ARBOR - The Omnia Group and the AutoHarvest Foundation announced that the AutoHarvest.org public facing website is now translated into 5 languages: Chinese, English, French, German and Italian. The two organizations expanded access to millions in their native language to the AutoHarvest ecollaboration marketplace for advanced manufacturing intellectual property. Within the AutoHarvest ecosystem, innovators
DETROIT ? Offered through AT&T, FiLIP and Amber Alert GPS are portable smart locator and communication devices that provide the answer to a question parents have been asking themselves for years: how can I give my child the freedom to be a kid, but still make sure they are safe? Amber Alert GPS is the
DETROIT - Media Genesis worked with the Detroit Jewish News Foundation to launch a site that promotes the digital archive of more than 70 years of the Detroit Jewish News. In 2002, a fire destroyed nearly all of the print archives of the Detroit Jewish News. In 2011, The Detroit Jewish News Foundation was formed