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According to an article today in Government Computer News, several western states are looking to move to a commercial cloud provider for the storage of their GIS data in an effort to control costs and increase efficiency. An RFI was issues by officials from Colorado, Montana, Oregon and Utah in November through their Western States [...]
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Autodesk’s cloud computing offering called Project Butterfly was launched as a public beta in early January, following the company’s purchase of the Israel-based start-up VisualTao. This new online CAD environment (think Google Docs for CAD) garnered a great deal of buzz at the 2009 AU event, and the site has been further validated by the [...]
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NASA has made a $600,000 commitment to build a grid-based approach for the modeling of climate change. The move toward a software-as-a-service approach will free up resources and provide greater access for researchers to explore global temperature rises and the impacts of increasing carbon emissions. Parabon Technologies won the award to build out the new [...]
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This morning we heard from Keith Bentley, CTO of Bentley Systems, about some emerging computing trends at the Be Inspired: Infrastructure Best Practices and Awards event in Charlotte. He spoke of a few recent technology announcements as harbingers of growing trends. He was impressed by Nvidia’s ‘Fermi’ graphics card that will be integrated into the [...]
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Concurrent with the news that Sun may be bought by IBM, Sun has unveiled their Open Cloud Platform to compete with Amazon.com’s cloud serving and storage offerings. Sun’s Open Cloud Platform begins with server and storage services that are aimed at developers who need more capacity to produce applications. The site emphasizes interoperability and the [...]
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The idea of cloud computing is that software can be delivered online as a service, accessing all functionality online, without the need to service or directly control the underlying technology infrastructure. Previously this was known as an application service provider, and there are plenty of successful examples with probably the most prominent mainstream example of [...]
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