That speeds deployment, configuration, and training, some of the bigger running costs in corporate computing.
In response, forward-thinking CIOs are encouraging workers to use their own smartphones and tablets alongside corporate computing platforms.
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Even if these problems are solved, Linux will need help to break into the mainstream of corporate computing.
Murphy started off by describing two kinds of corporate computing: vertical and horizontal.
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And thanks to HP and Lenovo, Chromebooks have joined the portfolios of two of the biggest names in corporate computing.
In other words, with the notable exceptions of Microsoft and Sun Microsystems, the industry is pushing Linux for use in corporate computing.
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.
The company appears to be differentiating itself from those two by offering a more systematized method of transitioning a business to cloud computing, and taking over more of the management of corporate computing.
Such is the current reality in high tech: IBM, Cisco and HP have become giants almost unto themselves, promising big companies a full range of hardware, software and services to run the biggest corporate computing operations.
Corporate computing started out highly centralized on mainframes and other room-size machines, but since the introduction of the PC has been going through swings between the autonomy of the individual computer user and centralized management by the IT department.
Without question, cloud computing has been a huge contributor to this movement as corporate computing both applications and devices was exposed as woefully unable to deliver the type of rich and expansive online experiences to which we had all become accustomed in our personal lives thanks to cloud-based applications.
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My point in bringing up the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 is that they hint at what serious computing--corporate, government and academic computing--could look like a decade from now.
Looking forward, the people who seem likely to be in especially short supply begin with corporate managers, computing and IT specialists, and health-care professionals.
The careful line Microsoft has to walk is this: they need to support the growing corporate interest in cloud computing, without abandoning their belief in rich clients.
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And NetHope has created an online space where staff from member organizations can collaborate with each other and with corporate partners about cloud computing technologies that could help them reduce costs and increase efficiency.
Like Arrow, Avnet has two primary businesses: they resell a wide range of components to electronics manufacturers, and they sell computing products to corporate IT departments.
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As you can see, of those surveyed, around 32% of corporate executives are using cloud computing applications and as of the end of 2012, that figure was closer to 40%.
The firm provides solutions for corporate IT departments, from cloud computing tools to WAN optimization products.
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Corporate IT remains one center of cloud computing, but more technology workloads are coming under the domain of business line managers.
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During the 1990s, there was a boom in corporate technology spending as companies upgraded their computing infrastructures to compete in e-business.
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But with genetic technologies advancing much faster than computing, opening up their corporate jewels to more innovators could prove to be just good business sense, giving them an advantage over their closed competitors.
Google is announcing new features for its corporate search appliance, tying in social and cloud computing features.
View any device or computing mode that can access or affect the corporate network as a potential part of the network.
But as the software technology matures, it will increasingly be able to lash together thousands of low-cost computing nodes and create a flexible, high-performance corporate data center.
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At a time when a recovery in corporate tech spending is being pushed out to 2005, the giants of computing may have finally hit on something customers want to buy: simplicity.
The results of this survey demonstrate that the implications for cloud computing reach far beyond the walls of IT departments, and into corporate C-suites and boardrooms.
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New opportunities in exploiting analytics, cloud computing, mobility, Big Data, and customer engagement are forcing corporate buyers of technology to reassess assumptions and choices that have worked for them in the past.
Cloud computing raises myriad legal concerns, as I wrote earlier this year in Corporate Counsel.
The future of computing, perhaps even more than the past, is looking like the full employment act for corporate lawyers.
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