All of the data is processed through an algorithm that creates our power ranking.

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The latest data is still being processed but one of the institute's sea ice specialists, Dr Sebastian Gerland, said that though conditions vary year by year a pattern is clear.

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Information when and where you need it is the byproduct of processed data models, running circles around your disparate activity, curated and connected to paint a bigger picture.

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The whole idea behind cloud computing is that you don't care where the data is going and where it's being processed.

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When the image is processed in SIGMA Photo Pro, it will preserve the balance of the natural data for the best photos with the best image quality.

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In 2011, 30% of data center workloads were processed in the cloud, with 70% being handled in a traditional data center, but this is shifting very rapidly, Cisco says.

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