Moreover, Mr Gamm, who is now 26, was not born with this computing ability.
For entrepreneurs, the rise of cloud computing means the ability to launch or extend businesses with minimal cost.
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At its basics, cloud computing represents the ability for software developers to cheaply and easily use the resources of masses of servers sitting somewhere in a data center (essentially supercomputers) to do something interesting or useful.
Smartphone and tablet users want more computing power and the ability to multitask.
Traditional PC gamers are used to paying a premium for computing power and the ability to constantly update and modify their hardware while consoles have historically attracted people looking for a cheaper, simpler and more stable platform on which to play games (the current generation of consoles have been around for six to seven years).
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Cloud computing is unique in its ability to address these critical defense and intelligence mission needs.
On the other hand, the move to cloud computing provided Intel with the ability to capture data center growth.
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The ability to integrate computing and communications functions will be vital as the PC industry stagnates and the market for smartphones and tablets is turning into a battle royale that has sucked in everyone from PC software titan Microsoft and online bookseller Amazon to search advertising titan Google, Korean tech conglomerate Samsung, and, of course, Apple.
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In this new computing paradigm, we see the ability for IT organizations to empower their companies to more effectively deliver the business applications they need to compete and succeed.
Hadoop has arrived as a force in the business computing landscape because it offers people the ability to store and analyze data at scale for an affordable price.
As a bonus, cloud computing offers defense and intelligence agencies the ability to increase efficiencies and incur marked cost savings during their lifecycles to alleviate some of the pressure of budget reductions.
The major shift Microsoft is pushing with this round of its widely used office tools is the ability to use them via cloud computing.
As a bonus, cloud computing offers DoD and Intelligence Community agencies the ability to increase efficiencies and incur marked cost savings during their life-cycles to alleviate some of the pressure of budget reductions.
Two years later, Facebook does have an iPad app, and Zuckerberg has changed his tune when it comes to the importance of mobile and the ability to access Facebook on handheld computing devices we carry around with us.
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Cloud computing "is a catch-all term for the ability to rent as much computer power as you need without having to buy it, without having to know a lot about it, " McAfee says.
Companies around the globe are learning that while cloud computing has many virtues, perhaps chief among them is its ability to help business leaders shift huge chunks of IT budgets away from low-value infrastructure and toward customer-facing growth and innovation.
More than likely, Apple will initially excel in cloud computing not for its innovation but for its polish, its marketing ability, and its impenetrable brand name.
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This versatile tablet lets users work the way they want to with multi-finger touch support, pen input or the ability to connect to the optional ThinkPad Tablet 2 keyboard and dock for a PC-like computing experience.
These days the typical corporate computing infrastructure is full of different boxes that make it awfully complicated and expensive for a company to expand its ability to manage information as it grows.
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