First light reveals a bleak picture of cloud and sudden gusts of rain.

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He signed the letter to Franklin Roosevelt warning that it may be possible to build an atom bomb, and the letters of his famed equation relating energy to mass hover in our minds when we picture the resulting mushroom cloud.

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When it comes to private cloud, however, the cost-savings picture gets a lot, well, cloudier.

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Pretty soon the numbers began to portray a picture that turned the puffy white cloud to gray and foreboding.

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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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Preferred by 8 out of 10 video chat users, ooVoo uses a cloud-based approach for more stability and a better picture quality than other services. ooVoo is a top 100 App in more than 130 countries worldwide.

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This technology symbiosis of big data in the cloud with social media technologies has unlocked the power to paint an end-to-end picture of who we are, from our roots to our potential legacy.

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