The 2013 predictions include a particular focus on cloud federation, an accelerated adoption of cloud stacks, and greater control over cloud resources through what they describe as enterprise-class features.
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SmartThings promises to let you do just that, offering a system that connects everyday physical objects to a cloud-based control center.
The tradeoff when leveraging cloud computing is control, and you have to dial-in the risk of losing access to your PaaS provider.
Companies that follow these steps will give their IT department the flexibility to respond to employee needs and the tools to bring cloud sprawl under control.
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By accessing free hard drive space via the PC, users have full control of cloud storage needs and the space is absolutely free of charge.
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On the other hand, Google Cloud Print gives users little control over how their print output looks.
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If Amazon does participate, says Forrester research analyst James Staten, the company will likely use its heft in the cloud computing industry to assert control over the standard and shape it to Amazon's current services.
Some customers will want a private cloud implementation to maintain greater control of the end to end experience, other customers are already moving data and applications to the Windows Azure cloud to take advantage of the reduced management and hardware costs the public cloud offers.
The Ube Smart Dimmer uses standard IP protocol to communicate with the cloud and with the Ube smartphone control app.
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All the laptop and desktop models will come along with Office Home and Business 2013, Fujitsu's My Cloud hybrid cloud service, and options like gesture control.
Whatever is placed in the cloud is also largely outside of your direct control.
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For example, the Ford Focus Electric can wirelessly connect to cloud-based applications that allow owners to control settings while away from their cars.
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For example, Ohio, Texas, New York South Carolina and Washington tax computing services directly, while Utah and the City of Chicago tax the cloud only when deals involve the transfer of control or possession of software as well as computing services, according to national tax-services company WTAS. At least two states, Vermont and Idaho, have recently passed rules to explicitly exempt cloud-based services from state sales tax.
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While the survey finds cost control as the major impetus to adopt cloud applications (17 percent say so), speed of application deployment (14 percent) and mobile access (13 percent) also rate as reasons to go to cloud.
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Although most cloud services offer some type of firewall and networking configuration control, capabilities are typically very limited, and IT administrators have very limited visibility into how they work.
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With iTunes commanding the majority of the digital-movie download market, the studios have made a bid to control their own fates by developing a competing cloud service called UltraViolet.
So, pieces of the ideal, which has existed for almost a decade, are beginning to fall into place: multiple devices that serve different functions all pointing at the user and maintaining state, network communications and cloud-based services that coordinate them all, and control points and apps that allow the user to get the most out of his or her device pantheon in the most convenient way.
These platform technologies will leverage advances in control systems and process engineering, big data and cloud computing, broadband communications, and cybersecurity.
Not clear from the Gartner survey is how many deployments will be with public cloud services, versus private or hybrid clouds under greater enterprise control.
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Secondly, when using cloud services, you have much less internal, technical visibility and control.
How do you really control access to your valuable data if it is in the cloud?
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Oracle is selling the flexibility of cloud software with a nod to the potential concerns that have lingered about control and security.
Another 30 percent also say that they are increasingly concerned about the loss of control that may come from moving data and processes into the cloud.
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Building a cloud creates a new mechanism for users to gain access to, and control of their IT resources, and for the IT department to set policy, governance and management procedures around those resources.
Currently, no federal regulations are in place to govern cloud computing, and according to an April 2011 Information Systems Audit and Control Association survey of 1, 800 Chief Information Officers (CIOs), compliance is a top risk.
The cloud is just a simple way of saying this is not yours and we control it with or without your feedback.
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And most of your concerns about cloud computing can probably be chalked up to irrational fears due to lack of control rather than legitimate dangers.
In a recent survey of 4, 500 high-level IT professionals in 83 countries, ISACA (the Information Systems Audit and Control Association) discovered that organizations fear the risks of using public cloud services.
Salesforce.com remains a stock with much upside, according to analysts at RBC Capital Markets, as the company continues to control larger quantities of customer data and leads the way to a post cloud world.
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