Cloud Computing: Big Data Enlisted to Fight California Drought
February 23, 2014
Grazed from MidSize Insider. Author: Rick Robinson.
As California faces its worst drought on record, communities, agencies and firms are calling on the latest generation of technology to aid in the effort to conserve precious water. From cloud computing to the Internet of Things (IoT), technologies that were purely speculative just a few years ago are now being implemented, and at the very center of the water awareness revolution is big data analytics.
Natural disasters such as droughts can provide a dramatic and instructive test of emerging technologies since they are often called on to work in new and expanded ways under urgent conditions. The California water crisis is testing not only specific technologies but also the agility of midsize IT operations in adopting new technologies and putting them to work…
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While much of the country has been hammered by winter storms, Silicon Valley and the rest of California have faced a record drought year. But as Patrick Thibodeau reports at InfoWorld, the tech industry is responding to the challenge by offering a host of new technology resources…
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