Consortium tests open cloud infrastructure for disaster situations
July 11, 2013
Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Archana Venkatraman.
An industry and government IT team in the US is conducting a test on the use of open cloud computing infrastructure to respond to emergencies and national disasters such as the Haiti earthquake of 2010. The team is testing how cloud computing platforms can help in collecting, storing and sharing geospatial information to assist emergency responders in a disaster situation through simulation.
The US non-profit organisation, Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC), has collaborated with six enterprises including The Aerospace Corp., Boeing, NJVC, Raytheon, Telos and Winthrop for the open source cloud concept project. These companies represent the response teams necessary during natural disasters such as healthcare, traffic control, aerospace and telecommunications, NCOIC said…
Together, the consortium has developed real-time cloud-based simulation for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). Using unclassified information from the NGA, the team has engineered a global, multidisciplinary response similar to the one that took place after the 2010 Haitian earthquake…
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