Trapped on three sides by high mountains, this warm, moist air forms huge clouds that then discharge electricity in powerful cloud-to-cloud storms.
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Cloud will evolve from a one-to-one relationship between end-user and cloud provider to a one-to-many, flourishing ecosystem comprised of cloud insurers, such as CloudInsure, broker services, and other intermediaries enabling organizations to enjoy the financial and operational benefits of federated cloud formations.
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The new wave of more-convenient-to-own cloud-based business software, which began last decade with Salesforce, Netsuite and Workday, has swelled to dozens of startups now hitting the enterprise market with flexible pricing, mobile access and tools that make doing business as easy as using Facebook.
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Scribe Online is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) integration platform that is multi-tenant based, enabling a on-premise to on-premise, on-premise to cloud, and cloud to cloud integration of CRM and enterprise systems.
There would have to be consideration of some way of embracing head-in-the-cloud answers to social problems that are usually dismissed by policymakers as academic naivete.
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The major themes of its new line of phones are an emphasis on social networking and media-sharing among a younger target audience, an easy-to-use multi-touch interface and cloud-based infrastructure that the Kin phones automatically uploads and syncs content to, for access on the wider Web and beyond.
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There are costs of migrating from an on-premises system to a cloud-based model.
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They claim to bring the pricing and risk management strategies of the financial commodities markets to cloud computing via revenue-generating services that add convenience and value to the cloud user.
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The public and hybrid cloud services will be jointly provided by Mobily and Virtustream and will offer world-class cloud services to enterprises and small-to-medium businesses (SMBs).
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In an ideal world, this coupling should be very loose, so that swapping out a traditional on-premises solution to something more cloud-like would not throw a wrench into a relatively smooth-running process.
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By deeply optimizing for the Google TV platform to achieve low latency cloud gaming mode, Ubitus can enable OEMs to offer over-the-top (OTT) cloud gaming services to their customers at ease and timely.
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In many cases they are using the technology to accelerate their ability to get to cloud-based infrastructure.
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Many companies as well as enterprise software vendors are shifting from on-premise applications to on-demand cloud based applications.
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At least 73% of the 151 agency executives surveyed are concerned about security in the cloud, and 45% said their mission-critical applications would require major re-engineering to modernize for the cloud.
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"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.
On Friday, Dotcom re-emerged to tout his next (cloud-based) venture via a prominent exclusive (with video interview) that appeared in the influential Guardian news organization.
The new service pairs the Samsung SmartCam SNH-1011 with iWatchLife's cloud-based server to provide all the home-monitoring data your paranoid heart requires.
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Accessibility from anywhere is the most-often cited reason (by 69%) for moving to a cloud-based productivity suite.
Just one example (courtesy iMedicalApps): startup Cellscope developed a smartphone camera attachment to create a personal otoscope (for looking at your eardrum) that links to a Cloud-based diagnosis engine to determine whether your child has an ear infection.
Across town, if the architects and couple Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas keep to schedule, their Nuvola -- a glass conference centre that was designed to recall a floating cloud -- will open in 2013.
In other words, automated, cloud-ready infrastructures are becoming the norm, creating a more pressing need to pair them with automated, cloud-ready operations management.
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In addition, a variety of networkable-applications are now available, and smartphone users can download them to access cloud-based services.
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Instead it has championed the concept of the customer-centric organization and has provided many cloud-based tools to support it, including its flagship enterprise social network, Chatter.
Offering a superior audio and video experience to customers takes cloud-encoding solutions to a higher level.
While the smartphone maker argues that the phone does offer an expansion option in the form of a microSD card slot (up to 64GB, no less), some apps still seem to prefer to reside on built-in storage over anything removable -- Amazon's Cloud Player comes to mind.
You might remember Zipwhip from its SMS-enabled espresso machine, but the outfit's hoping a new feature added to its cloud-based text-messaging platform will catch your attention this time around.
Second, the deal is further evidence of pending change in the contact center software market, which is transitioning to cloud-hosted solutions (Angel.com has a cloud-based and mid-market solution) at an accelerating clip and forcing the legacy incumbents (Genesys, Cisco, Avaya) to innovate or acquire.
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Whether it's free streaming2 on Windows 8, a subscription on Windows Phone 8 or tuning into a playlist on Xbox 360 - each experience is cloud-based for immediate access to your entire catalog, making music management simple.
Despite what seems to be a deluge of fears surrounding computing-in-the-sky, cloud providers say they are working hard to make sure their cloud services safe.
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