Storm Raises Worries on Cloud Computing

Excerpt: Outages at an Amazon.com data center in Ashburn, Va., caused by last  weekend’s storm have prompted some congressional officials to question whether  the federal government is moving too swiftly to put important data on  private-sector cloud computing servers. The outages affected companies such as Netflix and Pinterest, not the  government. But several federal agencies have moved email and other services to  cloud servers, which are housed at remote data centers and typically managed by  technology companies, such as Amazon or Google.

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