Internet security: Keys to the Cloud Castle

Dropbox's service is more than adequate for most purposes, but it is not an appropriate place for CIT students to store RSA keys.

Read why in this May 2011 post on a blog at The Economist.

Survey of Software Developers, re: Tools

InfoGraphic: A survey of former Berkeley students now in the software industry concerning programming languages, etc.

Note that the leading development platform is cloud computing.

Amazon's Case For Enterprise Cloud Computing

• Slideshow: Amazon's Case For Enterprise Cloud Computing. A presentation dated 6/26/2010, but still mostly current.


• Netflix Opens Door to Leaving Amazon Web Services.

Amazon's Oregon Data Center

Amazon's New Data Center Could Save You Money

"West Coast customers who don't want the latency of sending data to Northern Virginia (region US East/Virginia) can shift to a newly opened facility in Boardman, OR, (region US West/Oregon) and no longer have to pay a premium to use the Amazon EC2 cloud data center in Silicon Valley (region US West/N. California)."

Data Centers: a growth industry in Oregon

"Data centers have become a growth industry in Oregon. Google kicked off the trend by building a large data center along the Columbia at The Dalles, five years ago. Microsoft and Yahoo both built data centers at different points on the opposite side of the river in Washington State."

"Facebook chose Prineville, Oregon's high desert country where nights are cool even in the summer to build a model data center."

And now Apple has Confirmed Plans for Another Large Data Center in Prineville.

Amazon has a newly opened facility in Boardman, OR, and "has two other data centers in the region -- an adjoining backup facility at the Port of Morrow and another modular backup at the Port of Umatilla. Port of Morrow officials say Amazon has enough land to build five more data centers at the main site."

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Amazon's New Data Center Could Save You Money

Rackspace is scouting possible locations in OR