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.
For many years, he has promoted speech input, stylus-based computing and, with Surface, visual recognition.
They both believed that the future of business software rested on internet-style, browser-based computing.
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The provision of cloud-based computing services will have Microsoft duking it out with Apple, Google, Amazon and many others.
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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.
Chrome has another strike against it: a potential over-reliance on web-based computing.
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By enabling applications to both scale in capacity and provide non-stop availability, server-farms have played a major role in the rapid expansion of Web-based computing.
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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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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.
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.
Suncalled the acquisition a further investment into the future of Web-based computing, to be pioneered by vendors like Oracle, with its new Sun-based Business Online database outsourcing service.
Web-based computing is nascent but is considered to be the wave of the future, and Microsoft knows it needs to figure out a strong game plan there.
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?
Back in those days cloud based computing systems were taboo.
Google's strong performance came as another technology giant, IBM, revealed its earnings grew 6% in the fourth quarter, as it benefited from lucrative software businesses, such as internet-based computing.
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Sharp Electronics unveiled its Mobilon TriPad PV-6000, a Windows CE-based computing device that can be used in three different operating positions: standard notebook (clamshell), pen tablet (slate), or easel mode.
But that is to reckon without the shift towards Internet-based computing, and the growing success of the Java programming language, which allows applications to run on a variety of platforms.
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 I mentioned above there is little doubt that demand is growing for those network and computer security companies as consumers and businesses both embrace things like bring your own device (BYOD), cloud and web based computing and the shift from PCs to tablets.
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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.
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Thus computing based on the Internet is like a grid designed to deliver information and resources as reliably as power companies deliver electricity.
Rented applications fit beautifully with Oracle's vision of a simpler and more reliable form of computing based on the open standards of the Internet and the Java programming language.
The performance of a virtual machine, for example, may vary widely, based on the computing taking place on the other virtual machines that are running on the same physical machine.
The innovative Audi MIB modular infotainment system introduces a new powerful computing module, MMX, which is based on the NVIDIA Tegra Visual Computing Module (VCM).
In adopting their own personal cloud computing-based applications, employees are now driving their organizations to cloud as well.
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