(image for cloud computing center found on brajeshwar.com)President Obama's tech team is looking into incorporating cloud computing for Government use and efficiency. Cloud computing gives users a great advantage of security and ease of use from anywhere when requested. Check out the YouTube video by the Obama Tech Team.
Cloud computing has been around for a while now, more and more people are starting to look into the valuable use it offers. One of the great things is basically having as much computing power as you need and only paying for what you use. Allowing a company to put on their own custom version of the operating system they require and even create custom versions of various OS's and then leasing it out to perspective customers too.
I was at a lecture last year at my Chicago Java Users Group and we had Mike Culver a representative from Amazons Cloud computing giving us a great talk on the in's and out's of using this technology.
One of the great examples he gave was a well known newspaper's desire to digitize a great amount of old papers into pdf format. By incorporating cloud computing into the mix they were able to use an array of super computing processing for a small cost to get what they need done. The interesting thing was the whole process which would have taken weeks on regular PCs took just 24 hours using cloud computing technology from Amazon. They realized that there was a mistake in how they did something in their process and ended up re-doing it in another 24 hours and still saved a bundle on the whole process.
I am glad to see government finally start to look out at the great technology that is available for use at a fraction of the cost of purchasing aging hardware and replacing it as its breaks down.
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