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In the March 22, 2012, newsletter, I published an article about the release of the 1940 U.S. Census. I stated that this census would be the first to use cloud computing in order to handle the expected, sudden increase in workload of the servers during the first few days. Millions of genealogists will attempt to access the census images at 9 AM Eastern U.S. time on April 2. In order to handle that huge increased workload, the servers at 1940census.archives.gov will actually be a collection of hundreds of servers in the cloud. (The Plus Edition article is still available at http://eogn.com/wp/?p=19846.)
Feedback from several newsletter readers indicates that not everyone understands what a "cloud" is in the Internet world. I thought I would publish this introduction to cloud computing and also explain how cloud computing is used to provide digital images of census records to millions of online genealogists.
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