The round also included Correlation Ventures, Idea Fund Partners, CIT, Piedmont RIA, Cloud Power Fund, and TechStars.
And as always, for more information on our cloud offerings and the future of productivity, check out our Office 365 and Cloud Power sites.
If you have questions on cloud computing or what Microsoft has to offers businesses interested in investigating cloud computing, check out the Cloud Power site to get started.
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It wants to be the brain in your washing machine, your microwave and your car, not to mention the giant server farms dotted around the planet that will power cloud computing as more of our day-to-day work gets stored online.
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Nazim Richardson, Hopkins' long-time trainer, favorably compared Cloud's punching power to Antonio Tarver and Felix Trinidad.
The transformative power of cloud computing, however, is not easy to understand nor is it an overnight journey either.
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Consumers and enterprise alike are starting to see the incredible potential for combining mobile applications with the power of cloud computing.
Skyfire is dedicated to leveraging the power of cloud computing to radically improve the mobile Internet experience for both operators and their consumers.
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Mobile apps combined with the power of cloud computing will allow business intelligence and analytics to become affordable to even the smallest of merchants.
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However, the best executives never allow power to cloud their perspective.
This year the company signed deals with LG and Samsung to power separate cloud gaming services that will allow these companies to enter the console games business without needing to build a console.
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Value charging is a unique feature that harnesses the power of cloud computing to automatically charge the vehicle when utility rates are lowest, thus helping to minimize the cost to charge the vehicle and the potential ownership costs of an electric vehicle.
The number of devices and services that support high-definition entertainment is growing rapidly, and Dolby Digital Plus is a powerful and efficient way to bring high-quality audio to UltraViolet, which combines the benefits of cloud access with the power of an industry standard.
Throughout the ordeal, Al Jazeera effectively leveraged the power of the cloud to stay on the air and scale its reach and performance.
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Microsoft shares have gone nowhere for ten years, amid growing concerns that the rise of tablets, smartphones and cloud computing will sap the power of Windows and Office.
The great symbol of American mobility is morphing into a network device, a data-generating green machine plugged into a matrix of power grids, cloud computers and social media.
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While traditional BI looks at historical trends, the next-generation of Big Data analytics are currently leveraging the scalability and processing power of the cloud to find insight people can use now.
Its unconventional business model is using the transformational power of the Cloud to provide a new level of service that allows companies to keep their legacy CRM and data management systems, while providing a higher level of customer insight and engagement.
With groundbreaking video compression technology, OnLive harnesses cloud computing to provide the power and intelligence needed to instantly deliver the latest, premium game titles to any HDTV via the OnLive Game System or nearly any PC and Mac via a small browser download.
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Through the power of the cloud, it effortlessly integrates the music experience across your tablet, PC, phone and TV.1 With more than 30 million songs in the global catalog, Xbox Music begins rolling out around the world tomorrow on Xbox 360 and later this month on Windows 8 PCs and tablets and on mobile phones, starting with Windows Phone 8 at launch and additional platforms later.
Have you considered how your lifestyle is driving up power use in the cloud?
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Thanks to data center managers who are vigilantly seeking improved energy efficiency on your behalf, your power usage in the cloud is being managed responsibly.
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Small businesses, which have no budget for a big technology department, are especially eager to take advantage of the cheap computer power offered in the cloud.
Another thing we learned is that customers want to share experiences and observations around the public cloud (Bracket Computing is still in stealth mode, but we do share that we aim to re-invent enterprise computing by harnessing the power of the public cloud).
Apps are the user-facing and friendly part of the Promethean compute power that resides in the Cloud.
As tech companies like Apple, Amazon and Google expand the offerings of their cloud computing services, the amount of power going into data centers continues to grow.
Turning Big Data into actionable data is made possible by at least two key factors: (1) cloud computing, which scales in processing power, thereby allowing (2) the application of business intelligence, which works most efficiently when integrated with the cloud.
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Employees are accustomed to personal clouds that provide easy access to information over multiple devices and IT has embraced cloud services to gain cheaper storage and processing power.
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Nvidia Chief Executive Jen-Hsun Huang has a bold plan that could hollow video game consoles out, and place the powerful graphics processors used to power immersive digital experiences into the cloud.
"This is for power users who live in the cloud, " Senior Vice President of Chrome Sundar Pichai repeatedly told a select group of journalists at a low-key launch event in San Francisco.
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