Two recent surveys suggest they are embracing cloud for both end-user applications at a rapid clip.
Companies typically transition to the cloud because the end users are already familiar with public clouds, which offer excellent service at a low price.
Less than five months after taking over from Mark Hurd, Apotheker is offering a significantly different stress on offering sublime experiences via cloud computing, end-user connectivity, and software that connects the two.
And then VJ paints a picture of a whole back-end, cloud-based system that supports his vision of the coming role imaging and printing will play.
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Older middleware (the point between big computers and applications) is increasingly part of the cloud infrastructure, and end points like phones and laptops now choose, manage and load applications, with or without approval from corporate IT departments.
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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 combination will establish an advanced end-to-end offering of cloud and on-premise solutions for managing all relevant business processes, the companies said.
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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 total solution provides end-to-end segmentation of a cloud computing environment while offering the economies of scale customers seek to reduce infrastructure costs.
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Secure, easy to manage, end-to-end solutions from the cloud to the data center to devices remain at the core of our value proposition to you.
Going forward, any Smart TVs and Set-top-boxes running on the combined solution will allow end users to access cloud gaming services with a single click of button.
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The NVIDIA GRID Platform builds on this capability by moving high-end gaming to the cloud, eliminating the need for consumers to manage game discs or fit game consoles next to flat-screen TVs.
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End-users and departments are choosing their own devices, selecting and using Software as a Service applications and other cloud resources, and generally doing end-arounds to bypass the IT function whenever they feel like it.
Storing data in the cloud is becoming hugely popular not just for consumers who use it to keep photographs and other personal data safe but for businesses which are increasingly using cloud services to offer back-end processing power.
Everything that has been added to this new version of Creative Cloud is designed to create an end-to-end work environment that you can stay inside of all day, but that you can also use to project your work outwards.
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The company has to evolve into selling cloud software as well as higher-end hardware systems.
In particular as we move to the Cloud, software optimization and back-end processing are going to be more important than pure processor grunt.
As noted above, end users selecting their own cloud services can result in a chaotic situation that IT eventually has to clean up.
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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%.
It can run on high-end systems and on Hadoop or cloud installations.
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For example, if the cloud detects that the client has high-end graphics, it can let the client do some rendering, transmitting abbreviated math that describes the function to be rendered, rather than forcing the server end to do the work centrally and ship lots of pixel values down the line.
To this end, the company is now providing cloud services, such as hosting.
Another significant challenge arising from the adoption of cloud and mobile platforms is the increasing burden on end users to keep up with all the URLs and passwords they need to remember to do their jobs.
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The end result of this rapid adoption of cloud and mobile platforms is not only that more IT resources are physically moving outside the firewall but are also outside the visibility, management and even ownership of IT and the employer.
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Yesterday VMWare announced a big move into end-user centric access and management of cloud-based applications.
In addition, the cloud broker provided a single, unified web interface for end users to design, procure, provision, monitor, and govern the services.
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