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Obama official unveils 'cloud computing' initiative at NASA Ames

Original post made on Sep 16, 2009

Aiming to save billions on infrastructure costs, the federal government is following in the footsteps of Silicon Valley by building its own Google-like server farms and Internet applications with the help of NASA Ames researchers.

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Posted by IT Joe
a resident of Cuernavaca
on Sep 16, 2009 at 4:44 pm

Nothing like concentrating a distributed network into one place...greatly increases the chances for system-wide failure.

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