The battle between competing cloud-computing standards has caused a rupture in the open-cloud movement.

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The great migration to the Cloud and the virtualization movement will only create more of a need to monitor device performance and more need for his services.

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The key for SanDisk in this segment will be enterprise SSD demand, which is being fueled by the movement towards the cloud.

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And if conditions on Wednesday are at all similar to Tuesday, which featured thick cloud throughout to help provide lavish sideways movement, Australia's seam bowlers will be expected to hit back hard.

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Tim Bresnan was the most successful bowler, taking 2-47 as England made the most of overhead cloud cover and a pitch offering some seam movement.

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Cloud computing fundamentally shifts the benefits of the Open Source movement, fueling innovation from new sectors, and impacting our culture at large in ways that parallel how we have seen Twitter and Facebook up-end the status quo.

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Along the way, the M2M movement is expected to join forces with another disruptive force in the IT world: cloud computing.

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The Register survey also finds considerable movement to virtualize both departmental and core enterprise applications, and companies that have implemented private cloud projects are pleased with the benefits delivered so far.

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While much of the analysis can take place in the cloud data centres of the internet, the smartphone is the intermediary that is making the new wearable movement possible, as the devices connect to apps over Bluetooth wireless technology or other tethering methods.

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