Based on the novel by David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas tells six different stories spanning the past and the future with big-name actors like Tom Hanks, Halle Berry and Hugh Grant playing multiple roles.

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Microsoft lays down the price gauntlet in the public cloud (James Staten, David Bartoletti) On Tuesday, Microsoft announced GA for its IaaS public cloud service which has been in preview since last summer.

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Those procedures have been "under an ethical cloud, " said David Young, a professor of plastic surgery at the University of California, San Francisco.

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The Bishop of Birmingham, the Rt Rev David Urquhart, said he wanted to see something like Chicago's Cloud Gate sculpture, which he said would represent nature's influence on world faiths.

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David Gustovich, founder and CEO, IQity Solutions: One of the primary advantages of cloud computing is for small and medium sized enterprises to instantly obtain the benefits of a complete, scalable IT infrastructure without having to implement and administer it directly.

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"Our ability to create the ideal mix of device and cloud resources has resulted in a platform that completely changes the economics of television content creation, " said David McElhatten , senior vice president, studio and services for ActiveVideo Networks.

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