To make it work, the company built new software from scratch and put together a network of cloud servers across the world.
Cloud servers need fast hard drives to locate consumer data quickly, and SSDs are the best options for enterprise servers at present.
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If Apple can patent the delivery of responsive, device targeted content and require their own cloud servers to boot, game over for Adobe.
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Myth Two: Cloud computing forces you to share servers with other cloud computing users.
Facebook, Linkedin and twitter discussions of the event utilize storage on remote servers (cloud storage).
Similarly, your navigation and location-based services are tied to cloud services hosted on servers around the globe.
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Trend Micro started investing in the development of security for virtualized servers and cloud computing in 2007.
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Not only does cloud computing make your servers more dependable, but recent studies have shown that they also prepare small businesses for disaster.
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For the government, a warrant isn't currently required after a certain period of time for older information -- e-mail, social networking profiles or cell-phone location data -- stored "in the cloud" on Web servers.
Michael Dell shook up the PC market years ago, not that many, either, and can do it again in the cloud, with enterprise servers, and probably some great desktop, laptops, and tablets for the smaller business markets.
"It's a market Google needs to participate in because there's an overall shift by companies to change" from servers they manage on-site to "cloud computing, " in which the servers are shared off-site, he said.
Cloud computing takes existing physical servers and creates virtualized servers to exist on top of them.
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The Nebula hardware appliance helps automate building a massive private cloud from thousands of inexpensive servers.
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File-sharing website The Pirate Bay has moved its servers to the cloud to frustrate attempts to take it offline.
That bought him new servers, a cloud-hosted chat program and much-needed respiration room.
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You can leave the work of setting up racks and servers to the cloud providers, pay only when you need it, and instead focus engineering resources on core competencies.
The majority of business data may end up being generated by these billions and billions of Internet-enabled devices of all types, sending back huge amounts of data to corporate servers or the cloud.
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If such hack-attacks are not subdued when aimed at massive central information-storage servers, can the cloud be trusted?
Microsoft, while missing out on most consumer technology revolutions, has been busy programming business servers and expanding into cloud computing.
The service, only available in the US, enables users to store their music on Google's servers in the "cloud", so that they can use it on any connected device.
Amazon is a major player in cloud services, and has the servers and bandwidth to be where the consumer keeps their media, and the catalog to sell it to them.
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While the global server market remains strong, the shift to cloud (where more units of servers are sold into hosted data centers, rather than enterprise offices) is posing concerns to the broader market.
Ask Sony, whose online-gaming system, albeit delivered through the cloud, is hosted on its own servers.
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Cloud computing runs software applications on remote servers for clients without the need for businesses to make expensive hardware purchases.
He would swing everybody over to Gmail, hosted in the cloud, get rid of his Exchange servers, dump Outlook, and supply Office to only those five employees who needed it.
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Three possibilities proposed by Cox: a "peer-to-peer" social network, a cluster of "virtual individual servers" running on a cloud service such as Amazon Elastic Computer Cloud, and "hybrid decentralization, " a mix of the two approaches.
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The 22-person firm, which sells software for integrating and divvying up the servers of computers used by cloud computing services, is pushing an initiative it calls "Open Cloud, " a cloud computing standard that would allow a company's IT systems to be shared between different cloud computing services and moved freely between them.
In our data centers around the world, we are experiencing many public cloud deployments and private cloud deployments coming from enterprises that are putting their infrastructure, servers, storage arrays, and networking gear, which is the guts of what makes up a cloud offering.
How is the cloud fundamentally different from your own set of servers? he asked.
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