The two lapses, though unconnected and different in nature, have raised the question of whether customers can really trust the basic idea behind the cloud that you can buy computing services from the internet, just like gas or water from a utility (see article).
Most of the music processing technology behind Zya is in the cloud, so it only requires a small download.
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The business model behind cloud services is similar to the business model behind established communications network services.
The whole idea behind cloud computing is that you don't care where the data is going and where it's being processed.
It reappeared shortly afterward, on the opposite side of the city, popping out from behind a cloud, bathing Harlem and the East River in a chalky light, and, as though caught by a gust of wind, it rolled toward the Bronx.
After all, what is more secure, sensitive documents stored in laptops and smartphones that can be easily lost or stolen, or sensitive documents housed in the cloud behind several layers of security?
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The spruce and pine trees all around are weighed down, more snow than tree, and the steep mountainside that falls away beneath the farm is hidden behind cloud.
Among today's data-storage devices, magnetic tapes can degrade within a decade, while hard disks are expensive and need a constant supply of electricity to hold their information, creating huge need for power for the "data farms" behind cloud computing.
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Gymnastics leaders have been hoping to put behind them a cloud that has hung over the sport.
And because the cloud is the enabling technology behind the modern app experience, these two trends reinforce each other, driving a continued adoption of both that is fundamentally reshaping the way businesses think about technology.
However, given that President Medvedev has hinted that criminal prosecutions might be possible for the engineers behind the mission, Popovkin may be trying to deflect some of the blame or at least cloud the waters.
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The firm said urgent and compelling forces, such as cloud computing, social computing and mobile computing, are behind the spending.
Behind us, the sun showed itself for the first time, but an ominous cloud still hovered above the island in the distance.
This helps resolve the conundrum for those who want public cloud cost efficiencies while shielding highly secure workloads behind their own firewalls.
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In fact, even if a user turns on his or screen to access cloud (or iCloud) apps, there is still a full OS running behind that screen in the device.
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