Customers, partners, vendors, employees, and contractors must be able to access your information from anywhere and through any means, from a cloud infrastructure to hand-held device.
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For those with ideas but no clue how to turn it into a product, there are cloud manufacturing sites on hand to help with pretty much every part of the process from making to marketing.
On the other hand, Google Cloud Print gives users little control over how their print output looks.
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Cloud provisioning, on the other hand, can be implemented rapidly and at low cost.
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The holes in wi-fi security may be patched, but the recent high profile data breaches at companies like Sony show that we are all going to need to think carefully about what we hand over to the cloud.
On the other hand, the move to cloud computing provided Intel with the ability to capture data center growth.
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On the other hand, iTunes in the cloud, fixing Siri, competing in maps, finding another complex product-service problem that will unlock long term revenues.
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Conventional search, which Google dominates, is under pressure from social networking, hand-held devices and cloud computing areas Google has to pursue aggressively or risk becoming obsolete.
On the other hand, the company is working to offer cloud-based robotics systems now, which is consistent with the purpose of the site.
He ran the cloud-based call center service LiveOps and currently has his hand (and funds) in some 45 startups.
So while the closed data servers represent lost revenues on one hand, HP stands the most to gain from new cloud services on the other.
This development goes hand in hand with two other transformative technology trends: social networking and cloud computing.
On the one hand employees are bringing their own laptops, mobiles and software (via cloud apps) and CIOs are wringing their hands trying to figure out how to deal with it.
On the other hand, if the work is isolated or requires a small number of players, the Cloud may not improve productivity at all.
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