Met Office wins cloud computing award

Grazed from PublicService.co.uk. Author: Editorial Staff.

The Met Office has won a new award for its use of cloud services, also taking the prize for the most effective use of collaborative technology at the UK IT Industry Awards The winning Met Office Weather Observation Website (WOW) project, has used the Google App Engine to build and host web applications exploiting cloud and collaborative technologies.

WOW has enabled the Met Office to engage with weather enthusiasts, school students studying weather and climate and other organisations to create an active global online weather community…

The project shares weather data and photos and has had over 60 million weather readings from over 150 countries worldwide uploaded to the site in its first year…

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