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Weird, Rare Clouds and Their Physics

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 - 12:26:52 - Anuradha Menon

In August, we posted a photograph of some odd, rare clouds known as Morning Glory clouds without providing an explanation for how they form. In...

New Cloud Type Discovered?

Friday, June 5th, 2009 - 12:45:35 - Anuradha Menon

These choppy clouds over Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in an undated picture could be examples of the first new type of cloud to be recognized since 1951. Or...

NASA Launches 'Nebula' Compute Cloud

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009 - 16:43:16 - Anuradha Menon

NASA is ramping up a cloud computing initiative that could be used in support of its space missions and to give Earth-bound observers greater...

'Open Cloud' Plan Sparks Dissent

Monday, March 30th, 2009 - 10:06:53 - Sarah Gingichashvili

A plan by IBM to launch an industry-wide 'open' cloud computing strategy has seemingly backfired amid accusations of closed deals. Google pulled out...

Data Travels Six Times Faster in the Clouds

Friday, February 27th, 2009 - 10:04:52 - Anuradha Menon

Cloud computing enables faster, less expensive processing across geographically distributed data centers. The National Center for Data Mining (NCDM)...

Boot Up in Seconds with gOS Cloud
Thursday, February 12th, 2009 - Anuradha Menon
The software company Good OS recently announced its upcoming operating system called “Cloud” that can boot into a Google...

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IBM Gets Cloud Computer Fever

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008 - 16:11:50 - Ehud Rattner

IBM, on the heels of a recent announcement by HP, Intel and Yahoo to build a huge cloud computing playground for researchers, reached deeper into its...

Leaked Microsoft 'Midori' Cloud Computing

Friday, August 1st, 2008 - 20:43:08 - Anuradha Menon

For a company like Microsoft, constant change is inherent for survival. The company recognizes this and with each iteration of its Windows operating...