A friend I made on my deployment flight down to the ice had bought a bottle at Whiskey Galore in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Only a few nodes need to be connected to the internet, so effective deployment comes down to extending the reach of the internet throughout the disaster zone.
Another consideration for location deployment came down to the number of hills in the area since "it's not really a San Francisco hill-climbing machine," as well as ensuring it's serving an area that's traditionally underserved.
There are countless examples of clean-energy technology innovations being successfully developed and demonstrated, only to see their deployment slowed down, if not blocked altogether.
As large-scale military deployments wound down, the United States had simultaneously escalated its use of drones, cruise missiles, and Special Ops raids in an unprecedented number of countries.
"The key for wider deployment will be down to decreasing the cost of producing electricity relative to other forms of power generation and of course government policy," he added.
Fortune noted how building on top of Amazon's container management service enables Media Temple to quickly scale a WordPress deployment up and down as needed, for example.
Then IBM came along with a so-called "volume algorithm," a descendant of optimization formulas originally developed for military applications, like devising the best aircraft deployment to hunt down submarines.
If Google is actively targeting government organizations for Apps (which seems to be apparent from today's announcement), then this is probably not going to be the first or the last time deployment is bogged down in bureaucratic questioning.
A limited rollout of its service, covering about 200 merchants, is expected to begin this month, with a wider-scale deployment coming down the road.
