Cloud-based computing like this has been a major push for Microsoft in recent months.
"The more we talk to clients, the more cloud-based computing is seen as inevitable, " Lanier says.
The provision of cloud-based computing services will have Microsoft duking it out with Apple, Google, Amazon and many others.
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The question now is whether there will be any lingering impact of the technical troubles for Amazon, which dominates the market for cloud-based computing services.
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Other stalwarts rush to a future of cloud-based computing, with most of our business and personal lives moving into huge, remote data centers accessible via Web browsers.
And where is Microsoft or Nokia in the tablet business, which is closely associated with smartphone market for obvious issues of mobility and use of cloud-based computing architectures?
Google is taking on Microsoft with its cloud-based computing-as-a-service.
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If I am not mistaken, with its cloud-based computing, Amazon cannot separate a book sale transaction from a data cloud rental without incurring significant additional costs in redundant and unnecessary IT infrastructure.
For example, the IP data center segment grew by 170% year-on-year, reflecting the fact that many companies are buying high-end servers that can handle the massive Internet traffic associated with cloud-based computing services.
As the name suggests, this is a balance between personal computing, with local applications, and web-based cloud computing.
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Both saw a great future for their companies, despite the growth of Internet-based cloud computing via a browser.
In adopting their own personal cloud computing-based applications, employees are now driving their organizations to cloud as well.
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The company touted its offerings of cloud-based storage and financial computing services.
As we move into an ever more connected world of mobile computing, cloud-based networks and the Internet-of-Things, Arm is seeing increased demand for its high performance and low-power technology.
These findings expand on the Cisco Global Cloud Index, which predicts that more than 50% of computing workloads in data centers will be cloud-based by 2014, and that global cloud traffic will grow over 12 times by 2015, to 1.6 zettabytes per year.
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Cloud based computing has centralized e-mail data onto the servers of companies who are well positioned to deal with spam.
Through virtual desktop integration, Cisco Cius offers flexible computing options with cloud-based services, providing dramatically lower capital costs and cost-per-user for desktop maintenance.
Microsoft recently launched Office 365, a web-based productivity software product, to mark an entry into the fast-growing cloud-computing space.
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Cloud computing is based on the time-sharing model we leveraged years ago before we could afford our own computers.
This common baseline ensures that the benefits of cloud-based technologies are effectively integrated across the various cloud computing solutions currently proposed within the government.
Most enterprise software giants have started offering cloud-based, on-demand versions of their software, aiming to capture market share in the rapidly growing cloud computing market.
In addition, it is arriving at a time in which some of the traditional advantages of open source-based business models have eroded because of cloud computing and other developments.
What is clear right now is that with evidence of the value of cloud computing coming into sharper relief, cloud-based technology has emerged as the number one IT focus for many businesses.
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Developed in conjunction with the Stanford Mobile Inquiry-based Learning Environment (SMILE) program, the SMILE Plug is an easy-to-manage cloud computing server that supports a wide array of SMILE learning applications.
If they are designed correctly, cloud computing applications that leverage the elastic scaling of cloud-based systems actually provide better performance than locally hosted systems.
Our relationship goes back more than a decade, when Chip was selling cloud based computing services to companies that were just getting dial-up internet connections.
But breakthroughs in areas like mobile computing and Web-based, or "cloud, " services are "just beginning, " he says, and emerging markets have shown a voracious appetite for technology.
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Wanted Analytics recently reported that within a given month, more than 10, 000 US-based jobs were advertised online for technology positions that need experience and knowledge of cloud computing.
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Today, client-server architectures have been replaced by browser-based user Web applications and the cost of computing has fallen dramatically which, along with cloud computing, have made scalability issue quite a different proposition.
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