{"id":4634,"date":"2012-11-16T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2450565"},"modified":"2012-11-16T15:51:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T15:51:00","slug":"campaigns-move-to-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/campaigns-move-to-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Campaigns Move to the Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This election season marked a major shift from the traditional ground game of door-to-door get out the vote efforts to &#8220;Big Data politics&#8221; \u2013  in which algorithms are run in the cloud on databases of voter information to figure out who volunteers should target.<br \/>\nAs captured in Rackspace&#8217;s 2012 election &#8220;Powered by the Cloud&#8221; infographic, nearly every digital component of the 2012 election utilized the cloud: from the smartphone campaign apps to the social media systems to the super-secret voter information files. The cloud industry was well equipped to handle the terabytes of data-crunching demanded of the multi-billion dollar campaigns. For example, over 80 million voters will use cloud-based networks and smartphone apps to access information critical to their voting decision, a 200% increase over 2008&#8217;s election.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2450565\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This election season marked a major shift from the traditional ground game of door-to-door get out the vote efforts to &#8220;Big Data politics&#8221; \u2013  in which algorithms are run in the cloud on databases of voter information to figure out who volunteers shou&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}