For NOAA, flexible cloud enables mammoth computing
July 2, 2015
Grazed from FCW. Author: Zach Noble.
Sometimes less is more. Sometimes more is more. Sometimes you just don’t know which will be which ahead of time – and flexibility is king. Producing 20 terabytes of data every day, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is a prime example of the need for flexibility.
And through its Big Data Project, NOAA’s bringing private-sector ingenuity to bear on the age-old problem: How can government get its work into the hands of the people who want it? Making data public is embedded in NOAA’s history, but that doesn’t mean the organization is fully equipped to disseminate that data on its own, Alan Steremberg, NOAA’s big data-focused Presidential Innovation Fellow, said at AFCEA Bethesda’s June 30 Data Symposium. Steremberg would know…
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