This is exactly where Cloud-based systems become center stage.

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For the Wolves set, the band was partially obscured by a cloud of artificial smoke, and the stage was littered with candles and oil lanterns.

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Using Interop as a platform for my own informal study on the state of the cloud, the technology has already moved beyond the hype stage and well into the adoption one.

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Finding threats that are expertly concealed and utilize multiple steps to take over a system, takes a three stage approach that combines aspects of machine learning and a cloud-based knowledge repository.

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The respondents estimate that it will take approximately three years for cloud platform and infrastructure services to be firmly placed within the growth stage, and at least two years for software services to reach that stage.

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Steve Ballmer, pacing the stage at the CERAweek energy conference in Houston Wednesday night, touted cloud computing as the wave of the future.

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Other software works on ways to transform applications while minimizing risks like compliance or dependence on the software by a remote department, then put it in a cloud environment, untied to any particular server if that is appropriate. (This stage is where the Microsoft part comes in.) Afterward, there is a security assessment, checking software for security attacks in real time.

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Waits took to the stage dressed in a Chaplinesque suit, delivering his set from a slightly raised platform that gave up a cloud of dust each time he bashed his feet into it.

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