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White House moves Recovery.gov to Amazon’s cloud

Posted on May 13, 2010 by rajsingh

Very interesting. Another signal that geo must integrate seamlessly with mainstream IT to avoid marginalization. White House moves Recovery.gov to Amazon’s cloud

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Amazon Hosts TIGER Mapping Data

Posted on May 31, 2009 by rajsingh

Interesting Amazon “geo-cloud” news via O’Reilly Radar. The skinny is that you can use TIGER shapefiles on a virtual hard drive, IF you buy Amazon EC2 services. This could be a great business model showing how free data can promote … Continue reading →

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