First, HDS has what it calls an Infrastructure Cloud, which serves as a platform for data center convergence, including integrated data management.
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Second, data convergence and the smartphone came along and put cell phone manufacturers out of their misery.
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They were competing hard in a commoditized business and ignored the impact that the emerging data convergence might have on their telecommunications industry.
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Meanwhile, participants for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change prepared for meetings in Bonn, grappling with a convergence of new data from the International Energy Agency suggesting that humanity will be unable to prevent temperatures from exceeding the catastrophic threshold of a 2 degree Centigrade increase across the planet.
Increasing availability of high-speed wireless networks enable convergence of voice and data onto devices like the BlackBerry.
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It is the latest bid by Cisco to benefit from the convergence of voice and data traffic.
Though devices using WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) technology will not disappear from the marketplace, both Potter and Yankowski agreed that different devices using 3G technologies will dominate mainly due to the convergence of voice and data.
But we dodge that question, and so VFM becomes a conversation about IT convergence, procurement strategy, and data transparency.
We're also guessing that data networking and the convergence with telecommunications are evolving.
Thanks to the convergence of mobile devices, big data and new innovations in retail tech, we can see commerce transform before our very eyes: retailing becomes e-tailing, trying on becomes testing and expansion becomes buying a new domain name.
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Either way, factories have to take advantage of new capabilities enabled by the increasingly rapid convergence of mobility, real-time complex data processing and analytics, cloud based services and machine-to-machine intelligence.
The world is being re-shaped by the convergence of social, mobile, cloud, big data, community and other powerful forces.
The data show that while there is some convergence among iPad users and Apple products, the link is much weaker than might have been expected.
From broadband Internet to latest-generation wireless technologies, from aeronautical and maritime navigation to radio astronomy and satellite-based meteorology, from convergence in fixed-mobile phone, Internet access, data, voice and TV broadcasting to next-generation networks, ITU is committed to connecting the world.
It reports on the convergence of five forces: mobile, social media, Big Data, sensors and location to create an entirely new technology era, one in which context will shape business, marketing, advertising, our health, entertainment and our relationships with connected devices.
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Data from within the regions shows further divergence rather than convergence between the stronger north members and the peripheries.
Robert Scoble and I have been collaborating since July on Age of Context, a book about the convergence of five technology forces: mobile, social media, big data, location-based and sensors.
They did so while also enabling faster onboarding for newly acquired companies and making the most of their data center consolidation efforts, application portfolio analysis, service desk convergence, and heavy automation at all levels.
"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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The convergence of mobile internet, smartphones, the digital and physical world is likely to generate hundreds of times more data in the coming years, which presents tremendous challenges as well as unprecedented opportunities for development of the ICT industry.
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