Arsen Ari Kalfayan, who by day runs business development for cloud labor start-up CrowdFlower (formerly called Dolores Labs), co-founded a nonprofit called Reason To Party that throws affordable fundraiser parties for a variety of causes, from an AIDS hospice to the San Francisco Food Bank.
Google is charging down the same path: it offers music sync, photo sync, Exchange-like sync, cloud storage, remote device back-up and updates.
Rackspace took over an abandoned shopping mall in downtown San Antonio and built an amazingly scaled-up cloud hosting center.
SMBs can launch new operations in the cloud with little up-front capital.
In 2007 CEO Jain founded Egnyte, a Cloud file server start-up, that helps people working in a company to collaborate on electronic documents.
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The deeper belief is that existing big businesses--which, as with the initial Internet revolution, will make up the majority of winners in the cloud craze, Clementi says--will not give up ownership of their data and equipment to another proprietor.
For added network safety, the Cloud Storage 4000 features the D-Link Surveillance Station App, which supports recording and playback of up to four IP cameras, such as D-Link's award-winning line-up of mydlink enabled cloud cameras.
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The service requires businesses to make no changes to their existing number or hardware-customers keep their current voice providers, and simply sign up for a separate cloud-based texting service at zipwhip.com, text enable their existing landline numbers and start texting from any connected device in a matter of minutes.
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These days, setting up a cloud-based enterprise IT program is so easy that even non-IT types can manage it.
Ultimately, many enterprises may leave it up to cloud-based providers to worry about hiring and staffing this new breed of high-level professional.
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As should be no surprise, there are many cloud-computing companies popping-up.
Google also features a line-up of cloud applications that make it a virtual one stop shop, and greatly enhances its brand, including Gmail, Google News, Google Docs and Spreadsheets, Google Chrome browser, Google reader, Froogle and the neat Google Earth.
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It is a cloud service and will fully light-up when paired with Windows 8.
The South Africa native founded Pi, a start-up focused on cloud computing applications, in 2003 and sold the company to EMC in February.
Experience in specific cloud applications will provide an edge, but up-and-coming managers and executives will need to have a grasp of cloud as well.
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The real magic happens in the cloud-based software, which sets up the device and allows for infinite possibilities without ever writing a single line of code.
Low in the sky there's the classic cotton wool Cumulus, the Stratus, a layer of "rather dull" cloud, and higher up Cirrus - "a translucent delicate streak as if a watercolour brush has been stroked across the blue".
They say it will offer the same comprehensive one-stop cloud hardware and software shopping as HP and IBM, with more up-to-date equipment.
Video, mobile data, Web services and cloud storage are soaking up the once-forlorn fiber very quickly.
Already, there are ground-up efforts to promote cloud computing best practices in the high technology community.
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Could Apple's forthcoming cloud-based music service have a leg up in speed compared to its competitors?
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Riverbed and Akamai this morning announced a joint project to speed up the performance of cloud-based software-as-a-service applications.
Mobcast offers a cloud-based service that lets customers build up an eBook library collection without being locked-in to one single device.
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Moreover, FireEye sells access to its Malware Protection Cloud that keeps all its customers up-to-date on the so-called malware metadata of the latest attacks that the company uncovers.
While gameplay remains the most important aspect of any interactive experience, the high definition visuals and latency-free experiences that the cloud opens up is upgrading games across the board.
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That liberation happens when companies turn to the cloud to reduce overdependence on big up-front capital investments and overall IT spending, and are thereby able to invest more in initiatives such as Customer Experience (CX) rather than another round of infrastructure sprawl whose value is increasingly hard to pin down.
The routers will also feature the company's mydlink Cloud Services functionality, which lets users keep tabs on their networks via an app for Android and iOS. D-Link also introduced the new ShareCenter 2-bay Cloud NAS, which supports up to 3TB hard drives and handles RAID 1, RAID 0, Standard and JBOD configurations.
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With the GALAXY Camera (Wi-Fi), users can use the dual-band Wi-Fi technology embedded in the device to share photos with family and friends through email, social networks or mobile communication services like Samsung ChatON right from the device, as well as enjoy the luxury of backing-up pictures instantly to cloud services when connected.
The ultimate vision, Stegmann says, is that yReceipts is not even cluttering up your email or a cloud-based inbox, but integrated into your bank statement.
Cloud computing is up to 40 times more cost-effective for a SMB, compared to the alternative of running its own IT system as a recent research shows.
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