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Microsoft - Organizations Solving the World's Toughest Problems, Turn to Windows Azure
When the 9.0 magnitude Tohoku earthquake struck off the east coast of Japan last March, with lives and livelihoods on the line, Aidmatrix didn't have a second to spare. Aidmatrix quickly created a Windows Azure account and got the application up and running in two hours. Previously, Aidmatrix built datacenters in the United States, but latency issues forced the organization to begin locating them around the world, closer to where relief organizations carry out their work. So, when the earthquake in Japan struck, Aidmatrix relied on Windows Azure, rather than spend time and money building its own local datacenter. "We wanted a solution that was not only very scalable, but that was also close to the primary user community.With WindowsAzure we shifted our focus from building out and testing new infrastructure and load capabilities, to quickly deploying our solution to the users on the ground," stated Michael Ross, Vice President - Delivery.
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News from Aidmatrix India
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Food Banks in the United States Find Hunger Success with Aidmatrix
Aidmatrix would like to congratulate all eight food banks, located in Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maryland, Nevada, Ohio, and Virginia, that signed on to use AgencyExpress® to increase their hunger-relief capacity in 2011. AgencyExpress is a hunger-relief program that uses online ordering technology to enable Feeding America's network member food banks to list food inventories online, providing hunger-relief agencies the opportunity to view and order food from their food banks in a simple and efficient manner.
This holiday season, please consider making a donation of cash, food or your time to your local food bank. There are millions of families throughout the country who could use your help, this month especially.
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Sangeetha Srinivasan, Aidmatrix Solution Architect, recently had an article posted on ASP.net - a leading edge Microsoft Technology forum. In the Aidmatrix community, we tackle some of the toughest humanitarian aid challenges. We bring highly sophisticated technologies to those who serve people in need. These technologies are complex, but we and our community of partners become more expert every day on how to make these systems useful to the daily front line user who may not have much computer or business experience at all.
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