Nation Dec 08 Significant outage at Amazon causes widespread disruptions at U.S. businesses By Frank Bajak, Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press
Politics Jul 06 WATCH: Pentagon cancels disputed JEDI cloud contract with Microsoft The Pentagon said it has canceled a cloud-computing contract with Microsoft that could eventually have been worth $10 billion. The statement did not directly mention that the Pentagon faced extended legal challenges by Amazon. By Robert Burns, Associated Press
Economy Feb 13 Court halts Pentagon cloud contract work with Microsoft A federal court has ordered the Pentagon to temporarily halt work with Microsoft on a $10 billion military cloud contract that Amazon was initially favored to win. By Joseph Pisani, Rachel Lerman, Associated Press
Science Nov 07 Google launches service to store and share human DNA in the cloud It turns out that a human genome -- the complete set of genetic material encoded as DNA sequences -- is 100 gigabytes. By Justin Scuiletti
Science Sep 28 Government Aims for Cost, Security Benefits With Cloud Computing When Vivek Kundra, the federal chief information officer, describes how the government has gone about spending money on information technology in the past, images of infamous $200 government hammers and ashtrays can easily spring to mind.
Jul 09 Watch ‘Cloud Computing’ Could Transform Data Storage Some businesses are beginning to embrace a technology called "cloud computing" -- storing data and programs on the Internet rather than on an individual company's computers. But critics worry about privacy issues. Spencer Michels reports. Continue watching