Happy Friday, folks! This week’s interesting engineering technology news articles looks at the technology behind tennis, robo-dogs at veterinary school and how simulation helped James Cameron reach the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
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Tag Archives: DOD
A Cloud on the Horizon?
According to a recent post on the official website of the U.S. Air Force, Defense Department officials are looking to move away from the Department’s decentralized network of computer servers and data centers and transition into cloud computing. Robert J. Carey (Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Information Management, Integration and Technology) reportedly said that budget restrictions and the need for better efficiency is driving the department and military services toward cloud computing. He further stated that “stovepipe solutions…..cannot be afforded any more.”