Still, the points raised in the MeriTalk study also provide a case for cloud within the private sector as well.
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The big use-case for Cloud is music and Apple lead the way, through iTunes and Cloud storage.
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That certainly seems to be the case these days with cloud computing, especially now that it owns the hottest industry around: Big Data.
The magic glue that keeps all this together is the Cloud, in this case acting as your alter ego, a digital representation of you and your stuff: all those preferences, settings, privileges, programs, subscriptions, documents, photos, videos, music, and backup services.
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This will no longer be the case as IT leaders across companies of all sizes embrace the cloud and with it, a more strategic role for themselves.
Now while the typical cloud CEO is usually an enterprise software veteran, this is certainly not the case with Aaron.
In the case of Eyjafjallajokull, the watchful eye of Icelandic radar meant the cloud's behaviour was reasonably well understood, even at the time.
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In case they find out where the cloud provider is, all they can get are encrypted disk-images.
The Federal CIO Vivek Kundra, in fact, released a report of over 30 illustrative case studies of how cloud computing is changing the nature of government IT.
"Sometimes people are afraid to turn the thing on in case it disappears in a cloud of smoke, " he said.
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He added that the case points toward important unsettled legal issues with new technology like complex cellphones and cloud storage.
You have to take things on a case-by-case basis, but as time progresses, cloud computing platforms are eliminating many of the platform tradeoffs.
For those who are unfamiliar with the concept, a word cloud is a visual representation of the most frequently used words in a given document or, in this case, a speech.
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