The most ambitious feature is cloud-aware applications.

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Cloud-aware apps add another layer of complexity.

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After entering into a merger agreement with Drobo yesterday, the company's just announced Transporter v2.0 -- the latest software for its cloud-aware NAS. To jog your memory, Transporter is a device that lets you share data online, Dropbox-style, without a subscription fee.

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While some of these elements are knowingly outsourced by the companies involved, many are services which the parent website may not be aware are cloud-based.

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If the application is aware of the cloud resources available, the resulting application can be much more powerful than most that exist today.

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Governments are finally becoming aware of the implications of combining cloud computing practices with open source initiatives for their citizenry.

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The world's largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure at the convergence of the cloud and connectivity, creating seamless, secure, context-aware experiences for a connected world.

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Location-aware smartphones and inexpensive digital memory storage in the "cloud" of the Internet make the transition possible and inevitable.

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SMBs are very similar in that as the cost of running their infrastructure becomes cost prohibitive compared to the cloud, they will also tap into these specialized services and may not even be aware of it, as their hosters will shield them from the complexity.

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