SolidFire was founded by Dave Wright, who earlier founded Jungle Disk, which leverages Rackspace and Amazon S3 infrastructures to provides reliable, virtually unlimited scalability for any level of data storage.
I saw the work being done on rebuilding the infrastructure to provide clean water and a safe sewage system to a people who have suffered too long.
Despite its central role in the process, Google does not appear to have built a significant infrastructure to provide customer support.
Now the damage is done mainly through neglect: failing to invest in rural infrastructure to provide access to markets, or in agricultural research to develop technologies and native crops suited to local conditions, such as sorghum.
Amazon, notably, uses its own version of Android and its own cloud infrastructure to provide content for the Kindle Fire; none of the other Android tablet makers is able to offer the same.
These cities formed the epicentre of a vast trade network based on a common cultural and linguistic community, and built infrastructure to provide good standards of living for residents.
Rose Shuman, founder of Question Box, reiterated the value of information and explained how her company was "leveraging human infrastructure" to provide information to communities in India and Uganda, where people were not only illiterate but encountered other language and technical barriers.
Such an operation would require a support network and infrastructure, to provide location and secrecy while assembling a bomb, packing it in a vehicle and filing off serial numbers.
What China is now discovering is what many have known for a long time: we build infrastructure to provide services that foster things like economic growth, public health or environmental enhancement, not solely to keep people busy.
