Shared computing, it is said, will knock 20% off your data-processing budget.
The 22-person firm, which sells software for integrating and divvying up the servers of computers used by cloud computing services, is pushing an initiative it calls "Open Cloud, " a cloud computing standard that would allow a company's IT systems to be shared between different cloud computing services and moved freely between them.
The software and AI data driving Milo will sit in a computing cloud shared by all gamers so that as millions of people (Molyneux hopes) play the game, Milo gets smarter and better.
Microsoft's vision, as Gates describes it, is now one shared broadly by the industry: computing becomes increasingly centered around connecting individuals.
Concurrently, greater availability of wireless broadband Internet, shared network printers, and mobile computing has made it easier for groups to share printers, putting additional downward pressure on demand for printers.
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Learning to allocate shared costs over a wide variety of computing services is going to take time to get right.
Small- and medium-sized businesses will access applications they could never otherwise afford, and larger businesses will be able to control their costs by shared use of what would otherwise be excess computing capacity.
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An example of an application that does not work well in a simple cloud environment is a shared database, such as the typical Oracle database application, where the information is one big block of data that needs to be manipulated all the time by many computing processes and where access to the shared data needs to be synchronized and managed.
"It's a market Google needs to participate in because there's an overall shift by companies to change" from servers they manage on-site to "cloud computing, " in which the servers are shared off-site, he said.
In his written testimony, Salgado notes that the 1986 ECPA (Electronic Communications Privacy Act) doesn't reflect the internet circa 2013, noting how cloud computing has increased the amount of user information shared and stored online.
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