Google, he said, is investing in new types of mobile services including cloud computing applications.
The South Africa native founded Pi, a start-up focused on cloud computing applications, in 2003 and sold the company to EMC in February.
If they are designed correctly, cloud computing applications that leverage the elastic scaling of cloud-based systems actually provide better performance than locally hosted systems.
As you can see, of those surveyed, around 32% of corporate executives are using cloud computing applications and as of the end of 2012, that figure was closer to 40%.
In adopting their own personal cloud computing-based applications, employees are now driving their organizations to cloud as well.
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Cloud computing runs software applications on remote servers for clients without the need for businesses to make expensive hardware purchases.
The company just announced Cloud Foundry, an open source system in which developers can build applications for cloud computing, without having to work in specific underlying technologies.
As the name suggests, this is a balance between personal computing, with local applications, and web-based cloud computing.
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All servers for DNS, directory services, databases, applications, and cloud computing should be on non-Windows platforms.
But the rise of cloud computing and desktop virtualization means more applications run on a server.
Cloud computing will change where data and applications live and how they operate.
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Additionally, data center infrastructures need to enable shifts towards cloud computing and enhanced mobility, and applications will need to follow suit.
With such a heavy premium being paid for SuccessFactors, SAP sees the potential for cloud computing, particularly through its core applications and analytics offerings.
In an article in IEEE Internet Computing, Cloud Computing: The Limits of Public Clouds for Business Applications, I point out several problems the public cloud vendors will have to solve to support business computing.
So how big are the clouds and what percentage of companies currently use applications that run on cloud computing services?
The world is being shaped by macro trends: cloud computing, social media and communities and enterprise applications.
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Consumers and enterprise alike are starting to see the incredible potential for combining mobile applications with the power of cloud computing.
The potential risks associated with security, compliance, and availability of public cloud computing have dissuaded many CIOs from sending critical applications and data to the cloud.
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As a result of this flexibility and additional capabilities direct attached storage (DAS) used to build big enterprise storage systems that serve applications from big science to cloud computing will be able to offer faster performance and data protection and allowing faster data processing and content generation.
If you think about it, cloud computing is, at its core, focused on applications.
That world is giving way to a much richer and more complex one of ecosystems of handsets, cloud computing, independently-delivered and in-house applications, AND phone companies.
Data centers are used by the telephone companies, but they will also be needed for the widespread shift to cloud computing, where companies and people use files and applications over the Internet instead of relying on software or servers on their premises.
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It bought pieces of 3Leaf, a now-insolvent pioneer in "cloud computing" technology, including intellectual property with obvious military applications.
Developed in conjunction with the Stanford Mobile Inquiry-based Learning Environment (SMILE) program, the SMILE Plug is an easy-to-manage cloud computing server that supports a wide array of SMILE learning applications.
Salesforce.com is a cloud computing player that specializes in providing client relationship management as well as other applications.
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The basis for the platform centers around research related to Microsoft's Singularity project, and envisions a distributed environment where applications, documents, and connectivity are blurred in a cloud-computing phantasmagoria which can be run natively or hosted across multiple systems.
Oracle is not currently a major player in the cloud computing market and hence Salesforce.com could provide it with ample growth opportunities in applications software.
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Today, client-server architectures have been replaced by browser-based user Web applications and the cost of computing has fallen dramatically which, along with cloud computing, have made scalability issue quite a different proposition.
In addition to dual persona support for Android devices, the Telefonica Cloud Computing catalog helps companies more effectively manage their databases, virtual desktops (PCs) and applications by offering easy to consume cloud-based services.
Applications that make the best use of cloud resources are those designed specifically for cloud computing platforms, as I described above.
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