Remember the first time you used the Internet?
Today, we connect online far more than in person. And we generate reams of personal data as we go, via email, blogs, Twitter.
Add to that a billion mobile phones and new sensors to connect cars, refrigerators, TVs, even houses. We are generating so much data via the Internet that it is nearly as much as all of the words ever spoken.
How we manage that data efficiently via cloud computing was the focus of the National Institute of Standards (NIST....