You can buy your applications as a service, buy your database and middleware as a service, and buy your storage and servers also as a service.

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First Round Capital is known to do much more, such as a website to connect startups with journalists and a database that rates the service providers whom the startups might tap to run their businesses.

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Some of the information disclosed to Mr Ackroyd came from Brady's medical records on a confidential database known as the Patient Administrative and Clinical Information Service (PACIS).

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