India is outsourcing outsourcing.
Building the data infrastructure of HE also requires private sector outsourcing companies, software developers, cloud hosting firms, data analytics designers and a host of other technical specialists, often working in organizations with global reach and activities that straddle the commercial and public sectors.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos just introduced a new Free Usage Tier for AWS, the extremely popular suite of cloud-based services that let developers outsource some of their infrastructure to Amazon.
Parse's mission is to help streamline the development process for mobile apps, effectively allowing developers to outsource their application's server-side backend.
The company, which streamlines the development process for mobile apps by letting developers basically outsource their application's server-side backend, is coming out of beta today.
First, there's the fact that it's hosted, so developers can outsource their infrastructure issues (all data is replicated in at least two datacenters).
And since it was hosted, it allowed developers to outsource their infrastructural issues issues and was distributed using Cassandra, so there's no single point of failure.
MongoHQ offers hosted Mongo databases in the cloud, allowing developers to outsource common tasks like deployments, backups, scaling, optimization, web tools, analytics, and business intelligence that's associated with their Mongo database.
iPhone app developers can outsource these cloud-based services to Urban Airship, which will focus primarily on the iPhone for now but will aim to provide support for other mobile devices in the future.
Last week Twitter fell prey to a massive security breach revealing internal documents, while developer-outsourcing site Elance got hit by a hack as well that compromised some user data.
