On the road and up in the Cloud, part I

Précis:

Off-site data storage becomes cheaper, more scalable, enabling cars to be ever smarter. In the first of a two-part series, Steve Friess reports.

It’s no longer new or surprising that the connected automobile has become a treasure trove of information on how people live, where they go, how they drive and what they enjoy. But there is one specific innovation of recent years that has enabled all of that information to actually become useful: The ever-more-powerful Cloud.