The term Cloud Computing for small business is, simply put, a means to leverage your data assets and artifacts in ways that allow for complete scalability.
In November 2009 IBM announced the creation of the world's largest private cloud computing environment for business analytics, called BlueInsight, which holds more than a petabyte of information.
For example, IBM, the best-known name in early computing and still the major supplier of technology for business, offers a host of technology solutions including hardware, software, and support.
Hewlett-Packard is one of the global providers of computing and imaging solutions and services for business and home.
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Hewlett Packard is one of the global providers of computing and imaging solutions and services for business and home.
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Our customers benefit from cloud computing by taking advantage of business solutions for managing their people, instead of dealing with the cost and expense of IT.
In an article in IEEE Internet Computing, Cloud Computing: The Limits of Public Clouds for Business Applications, I point out several problems the public cloud vendors will have to solve to support business computing.
Called Accenture Technology Vision 2013, the report says that this software-driven dynamic is turning not just business processes but also companies and even entire industries upside-down as cloud computing, social media, business analytics, mobile computing, and security have become primary tools for creating competitive advantage.
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Lord Sugar, who founded the Amstrad computing business and is now best known for his Apprentice reality TV programme, is guest editing the Radio Times.
Cisco executives said that a shift to cloud computing would help to create better business models for customers and increase the operating efficiency of the network.
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Each of these have had a tremendous impact not only in computing, but more so for how businesses organize and execute their business operations.
Although it has yet to prove it can offer the one-stop shop for technology and services that the aristocrats of the computing business have made their own, Compaq could not have signalled its intentions more clearly.
"Within a couple of years we'll see eye-tracking in consumer products, like consumer computing and cars, " says Jenny Grant, strategic business development manager for Tobii Technology.
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Apple Computer Inc. designs, manufactures and markets personal computers and related personal computing and communicating solutions for sale primarily to education, creative, consumer and business customers.
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Meeker made the point back in 2009 that the Mobile platform will be the next great computing cycle, creating, as she put it, the greatest force for business disruption and wealth creation in history.
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Hardware, software, consultware IBM SHIPPED its first Model 650 to an insurance company in December 1954 and for the next quarter of a century this hardware manufacturer owned the computing business.
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For the first time in the memory of most people in the enterprise computing and software business, Oracle Open World took a back seat to a whole new industry event, this one dedicated to the Cloud and to Big Data.
The price was that for decades, as Microsoft took command of the world of business and workplace computing that was the foundation of the PC industry, most people saw Apple as a maker of overpriced, prettified luxury goods that lacked some of the core functionality of PCs and PC-based devices.
The company is looking for ways to get further involved in the high-mobility business (all day computing with a smartphone, tablet, or small notebook).
Cloud computing is increasingly being adopted as a way for IT organizations to decrease costs, improve efficiency and enhance business agility.
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Huang argues this is a natural for Nvidia, whose graphics business is built on building chips able to do the parallel computing work that makes computer graphics pop.
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.
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.
To get an in-the-trenches perspective, I asked Jason Stowe, founder and CEO of Cycle Computing, about his experiences as an entrepreneur who built his business on the cloud and offers the chance for others to do the same.
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