Consumers already enjoy the benefits of cloud computing to store email and photos and to stream music and movies.
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It's plenty easy for users of cloud computing services to store data in just one click.
And with all the computing devices that store this information, banks have to protect it from those who aspire to steal it.
Those testifying suggested that there are three big trends that Congress needs to take into account in updating the law: cloud computing (as we store more of our data on third party servers rather than at our homes and offices), the increasing use of mobile and smartphones (which so conveniently provide our location information), and the rise of social networking platforms.
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Under the cloud-computing model, Microsoft would store Office programs on its own servers and deliver them to customers online.
There are just the devices you turn on or off, and the data they store. iCloud is computing without the computing.
Cisco has been keen to expand in cloud computing, which allows users to store and manage data over the internet, as opposed to traditional hardware.
For the Nutch project we needed distributed computing technology, we needed to store datasets that were much bigger than we could store on one computer, and we needed to have processes that would run and be coordinated across multiple computers.
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Domestic areas of comparable store sales growth included mobile computing (including tablets), appliances and eReaders.
Best Buy said domestic segment areas of comparable store sales growth included mobile computing (including tablets), appliances, eReaders, mobile phones, and movies.
More specifically, Kempel estimates that two of its OmniCube systems could replace the computing infrastructure that companies typically use to store and retrieve data.
The "taken as read" prediction is the rise of "cloud computing, " which allows consumers to store data, and run apps from, remote servers on the Internet.
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The company also saw a mid single-digit comp store sales decline in mobile computing due to a fall off notebook computer sales, in part reflecting a pick-up in tablet computer sales.
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Big Data has been a problem for businesses in the past because it's been expensive to store and because huge amounts of computing power are needed to analyse it to get anything useful from it.
Data in the cloud is a much more dynamic thing than the traditional store-fetch stuff kept in traditional computing databases.
Micron Technology is a global maker of semiconductors that store and retrieve data used by the computing, consumer, networking, telecommunications, and imaging markets.
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.
Much as Google has with its Google Drive service, Apple has embraced cloud computing with its iCloud offering, which lets users store documents, photos, music and movies on Web-based servers.
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Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with iPad.
He also inspired the whole Cloud computing discussion and the subsequent incubator projects that may result in a financial app store.
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Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced iPad 2 which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.
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Apple is reinventing the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.
Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store, has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.
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