On Jan. 12, 2012, the Huawei-TELUS Innovation Centre for Enterprise Cloud Services will be unveiled at Carleton University. The centre is being created through a $1.4 million investment made by Huawei and TELUS in 2011.

The lab, located in Carleton’s new engineering building, will be a venue for performing cutting-edge research in cloud computing. Students, faculty and industry will research real-world problems associated with enterprise clouds, including management of computing, on-demand storage and network resources, data-centre networking, scalability, business continuity and security.

Faculty and students from Carleton’s Faculty of Engineering and Design and representatives from Huawei Canada and TELUS will be on hand to discuss the importance of cloud technologies and the research projects they are launching in the centre.

When: Jan. 12, 2012 at 10 a.m.

Where: Fifth floor, Canal Building, Carleton University

Parking: Parking is available in P2. Journalists are invited to leave their media passes on their dashboards.

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