Rox said its "highly sophisticated" new smoke cloud system released a heavy fog which reduced visibility when activated.
Rox said it had now employed a full-time security guard and installed a smoke cloud system as a deterrent.
Microsoft, with its Azure cloud system, along with offerings from IBM, HP and others, are all wooing companies and independent developers.
The new cloud system encompasses all email and desktop applications (such as documents and spreadsheets) for 30, 000 City employees across all City departments.
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Kevin Yee, administrator of cardiology at Henry Ford, says managing images was becoming a logistical nightmare when the hospital decided to test the cloud system in 2011.
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The county is also using SPSS predictive analytics software, Cognos business intelligence software, i2 Intelligent Law Enforcement solution, a private cloud system on zLinux hosted on an IBM System z mainframe and IBM PureFlex System.
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Sharing files via a cloud system is convenient, of course, but remember that anyone you share files with can share those same files with another party that you do not know and have not specifically given access to.
We're not missing the old "gamertag recovery" feature the cloud system replaced and upgraded, but any significant outage is certainly enough to make us think about keeping our saves backed up on a memory card in a safe place -- just in case.
But the idea of handing over your entire computing system to a multinational running a cloud computing system is that they have in place the structures to stop such mistakes.
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He confirmed that part of the company's cloud storage system, SkyDrive, had also been affected.
Scientists working on an ash cloud detection system believe that airlines will soon be able to do just that.
According to NCR, the payment details are encrypted and the transaction is securely processed by a cloud-based system.
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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Mingsheng Hong is Chief Data Scientist at Hadapt, a Boston-based startup that offers an analytical platform that integrates structured and unstructured data in one cloud-optimized system.
People may go about selecting a consultant, a cloud based storage system or a box of cereal in a different set of steps, but people buy emotionally and justify their decisions intellectually.
This new network topography is ideal for use in public places such coffee shops, airports and arenas, enabling venues to monitor, upgrade and set policies for each Wireless Charging Spot from a centralized cloud-based system.
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The company is rolling out Advent Direct, a new cloud-based system that lets investment managers take data from their Advent modules and other enterprise systems such as SalesForce.com, to generate a view of their investment processes and, soon, of their customers.
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If you are thinking about using a cloud-based system for CRM or accounting, ask the tough questions up front about how you can get your data back if the company goes out of business or if you simply want to choose a different solution.
The company just announced Cloud Foundry, an open source system in which developers can build applications for cloud computing, without having to work in specific underlying technologies.
Since its early days, Groupon has used a cloud-based software system, called Zendesk, for its customer service.
VMware also benefits by creating even more demand for its cloud-level operating system, and staves off competitors that also want to create meta-server environments, like Microsoft.
Companies like Gluster have shown it is possible to create a file system on cloud infrastructure that is cheap and reliable, but this will only help a certain class of applications.
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Cheng says the comet is likely making its first visit to the inner solar system from the Oort cloud, a reservoir of hundreds of millions of comets encircling our solar system at a distance of about a light year.
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This is why so many of our clients choose an in-house CRM system over a cloud based application.
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There are costs of migrating from an on-premises system to a cloud-based model.
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Migrating the mail system to the cloud is usually the first step to a long transformation process and a new IT paradigm.
If more horsepower is needed, then the user can quickly switch into the main operating system, which Cloud continues to load in the background.
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One of the CTOs reported that he was unable to diagnose a problem with an application using an NFS file system based on cloud infrastructure.
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It does not really work when you move an existing system to the cloud, if the organization would not be able to use their existing licenses anymore.
"We are defining a new era of convergence in technology, with one unified operating system that underpins cloud computing, data centers, PCs and consumer electronics" says Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and VP Products at Canonical.
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