Technology Now: Cloud Computing

in Featured, News
October 5th, 2012

The GIR recently produced a new Tech Brief for the community. Click here for the full collection of Tech Briefs.

technowThis Tech Brief, “Technology Now: Cloud Computing,” explores the entire spectrum of cloud computing programs that offer potentially lower cost, easy-to-use services with high reliability and rapid startup times are now widely available online. These services, provide computing resources as an online service, not as a physical product. Researchers and users are demanding access to the capabilities that these services provide, but security officers are reluctant to give them access and academic IT organizations are not typically resourced to provide them locally.