Cloud centers bring high-tech flash but not many jobs to beaten-down towns (Michael S. Rosenwald/Washington Post)
Michael S. Rosenwald / Washington Post:Cloud centers bring high-tech flash but not many jobs to beaten-down towns — MAIDEN, N.C. — Here in this once-thriving town of furniture makers and textile mills, where Main Street businesses have vanished, nearby fast-food joints have closed and unemployment is rampant …
GAO sees no compelling reason to restrict Cloud data centers to U.S. locations
Jacob Goodwin Top Priority Sector: it_security In a May 2011 solicitation for Cloud providers – particularly for email services – the General Services Administration (GSA) found itself in an argument with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) over whether the data centers that would provide such Cloud services [...]
Google Details Electricity Usage of Its Data Centers (James Glanz/New York Times)
James Glanz / New York Times:Google Details Electricity Usage of Its Data Centers — Google released what was once among its most closely guarded secrets on Thursday: how much electricity its enormous computing facilities consume. — The company said that its data centers continuously drew almost 260 million watts …
Quintron CEO: Regional command centers key to interoperable communications
Top Priority Sector: access_control_identification Image Caption: David Wilhite In the opinion of David Wilhite, CEO and President of Quintron Systems in Santa Maria, CA, the recent hurricanes, floods, wildfires and other natural disasters in the U.S. have dramatically demonstrated the need for regional command centers — particularly at the municipal, regional and state levels of [...]
New Lecture Series Centers on Security Issues – University of Arizona News (press release)
University of Arizona News (press release) New Lecture Series Centers on Security Issues University of Arizona News (press release) Christian Collberg, a UA professor who recently published a book about software security has launched a lecture series featuring experts on computer …
