Temperature, rain, cloud cover, barometric pressure, wind speed and humidity had no affect.

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This is intensified by the pressure not just from Oracle who claims cloud supremacy, but also SAP and Microsoft.

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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.

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The mobile computing revolution and the move to the cloud, along with declining PC sales, are set to put increased pressure on hard drive makers going forward.

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Marketers want to do more with big data in 2013, which probably means they will increase the pressure on the IT department or by-pass it with cloud-based resources.

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Usually, the prevailing south-westerly wind would take the ash cloud away from Europe and over the polar region, but a high-pressure area is bringing it over Europe, where it is sitting and barely moving as the ash spreads.

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As IT budgets continue to face pressure in 2012, enterprises will focus more on leveraging external service providers and cloud computing to save capital expenditure.

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