cloud computing

Google and Amazon May Have Just Handed Apple the Keys to the Cloud Music Kingdom

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 19 May 2011 10:46:45 -0400

Full article: TechCrunch
MG Siegler
With regard to their cloud music offering, it looks like Apple is now just about ready to rock and roll. It would seem that this is now coming together even faster than they anticipated. And that may be thanks to two unlikely sources: Google and Amazon.

Learning from Amazon's Cloud Collapse

Lindsy Embree — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:46:23 -0400

Full article: Mashable
Ben Parr
Call it Cloudgate, Cloudpocalyse or whatever you'd like, but the extended collapse of Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute is both a setback for cloud computing and an opportunity to figure out how to stop it from happening again.

Amazon Cloud Failure Takes Down Websites

Stevie Converse — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 08:23:32 -0400

Full article: New York Times
Claire Cain Miller
A widespread failure in Amazon.com's Web services business took down many Internet sites, highlighting the risks involved when companies rely on so-called cloud computing.

China Building a City for Cloud Computing

Lindsy Embree — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:53:51 -0500

Full article: Computerworld
Patrick Thibodeau
China is building a city-sized cloud computing and office complex that will include a mega data center, one of the projects fueling that country's double-digit growth in IT spending.

For Your Files, Lots of Room in the Cloud

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:22:57 -0500

Full article: New York Times
John Biggs
In the old days of computing, you could carry only as many files as you had floppy disks. Then came hard drives and thumb drives, allowing those so inclined to carry entire digital encyclopedias in their pockets. Finally, thanks to new services that store data in the cloud, yet another stage of storage evolution has been reached: the celestial hard drive, a storage medium that exists solely in the electronic ether.

Federal Government Moves Forward with 'Cloud-First' Plan for New Technology

Lindsy Embree — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:02:06 -0500

Full article: Washington Post
Marjorie Censer
The General Services Administration's decision to move its e-mail program to a Web-based system modeled on Google's popular Gmail program is part of a major government drive to increase federal use of cloud computing.

FCC to Float Cloud Computing

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:54:50 -0500

Full article: Politico
Alex Byers
When the FCC launches its new website early next year, it will become the first major federal agency to use cloud computing technology to completely power its main Web presence.

The Lowdown on Net Neutrality and Cloud Computing

Lindsy Embree — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:15:03 -0400

Full article: InfoWorld
David Linthicum
If what Google and Verizon are promoting becomes accepted as FCC policy, cloud computing will become more expensive, lower performing, and much less desirable. It's bad for the Web, bad for users and very bad for cloud computing. Let's work together to make sure that the Internet stays open and neutral.

Google on Net Neutrality, It's Fiber Buildout and Cloud

Lindsy Embree — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:57:26 -0400

Full article: GigaOM
Stacey Higginbotham
Google's core philosophy about opening up access to the world's information is the reason behind the company's pro-Net Neutrality stand, the building of its own fiber network and its search for protocols for moving information between cloud providers.

Cloud Computing Can Save Govt Agencies 25-50 Percent

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 08:39:16 -0400

Full article: Google Public Policy Blog
If someone told you that they had an idea that could help government agencies function more productively while also cutting IT costs up to 50 percent, wouldn't you take them up on the offer? That's the kind of promise cloud computing holds.