by Andrea Di Maio | April 29, 2011 | Comments Off
Over the last few days two major events, one of international relevance and one limited to my own country (Italy), have shown that the web is fallible and those who claim that the cloud will give us commodity, always-available, scalable and cheap IT resources will have to reassess their beliefs. The first incident, which is [...]
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by Andrea Di Maio | May 13, 2010 | 3 Comments
Today the US Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board announced that their web site Recovery.gov went live on Amazon EC2 (see also here for coverage by O’Reilly Radar and here for the White House blog). According to the announcement, this is the first government-wide system to go to the cloud, although I thought that the move [...]
Category: cloud Tags: Amazon, recovery.gov
by Andrea Di Maio | May 5, 2009 | 5 Comments
Like Google, also Amazon is creating vast repositories of public data pulled from data sources managed by government. The last example is the addition of the U.S. Census Bureau’s Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (TIGER) shapefiles, covering American states, counties, districts, places, and areas. Amazon has already posted other data in past, such as [...]
Category: open government data Tags: Amazon, data.gov, Google, transparency
