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Public clouds for scientific applications cost up to 13x more

Public cloud computing environments for scientific applications have the potential to be up to 13 times more expensive than existing Energy Department supercomputing centers, finds a final report of

Expect a high C&A burden when deploying Drupal in a controlled environment

Across government, open source web content management system Drupal is increasing in popularity. But most of the buzz has been around sites such as WhiteHouse.gov and Energy.gov , not from Defense or

Pernicious terms of service a threat to democracy

How free is the Internet? Apparently only as free as companies say the terms of service allow. Hence the story of Wikileaks this past week, which has seen Amazon Web Services and PayPal withdraw

Federal employees warned away from Wikileaks

A number of federal agencies have blocked access to Wikileaks from government computers, referencing a policy requiring the protection of classified information, apparently valid even while the rest

Amazon backs off Wikileaks hosting while White House says 'structural reforms' are underway

Amazon Web Services no longer provides hosting services to Wikileaks, according to Wikileaks itself and to Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), who had pressured the company after reports surfaced that the

Wikileaks fallout grinds onward

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi may have "had a good laugh" after seeing himself described as "feckless, vain, and ineffective as a modern European leader" in leaked State Department cables,

Amazon Web Services favored by another sole source notice

Another federal agency has decided that Amazon Web Services is the only commercial source capable of providing cloud computing. In this case, it's the Interior Department's Office of Surface Mining,

Navy center: Amazon Web Services is 'only known source' for cloud computing services

Amazon Web Services is the only commercial supplier capable of providing cloud computing services for the remote storage of digital photographs and video, according to the Navy's Fleet and Industrial