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TecNet held, last week, their second gathering, hosted by iConnect, one of Billings’ older technology companies. The gathering drew people from throughout the region, with business owners and employees, and people wanting to be employees, as well as would-be entrepreneurs. “Tech businesses have trouble communicating with each other,” explained Chapman about the purpose of the informal organization.

electricity was the key factor that brought the BMW consortium to Moses Lake, instead of Japan (where the raw material for the fiber is made), or Germany, where the fiber will be woven into fabric and then made into car parts and components.

In weighing their options, business people, IT managers, and government technologists will have to test the commonly held assumption that cloud computing is cheaper. McKinsey & Co. did so and came to the controversial conclusion that cloud computing is twice as expensive as do-it-yourself data centers for wholesale data center operations.

Cloud computing (delivering applications and services over the Internet) and utility computing (delivering server capacity on demand over the Internet) are expected to require massive data center capabilities.