The cloud-storage concept is catching on in lots of ways, but music, as buzz about Amazon's new service shows, seems to be the next frontier in this cloud expansion.

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In parallel to the expansion of the public cloud, many organizations have started to deploy their own private clouds for internal applications and content (archival) storage.

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To the extent 2011 sees lower year-over-year growth than originally forecasted, we would expect to see that demand pushed into 2012, because of the fundamental drivers, from the standpoint of expansion of network services, the cloud and new applications for NAND flash memory in PCs will continue to evolve and drive the industry.

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What's missing here is microSD expansion, but there's 15GB of Baidu cloud storage should users wish to take advantage of that.

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These solutions included expansion of the company's managed mobility services for tablets, mobile access to cloud-based SAP applications and enhanced security management programs for health care providers.

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John Kestner and David Carr created Twine, a 2.5 inch-square device with on-board temperature and vibration sensors, as well as an expansion connector for other sensors, such as moisture sensors and magnetic switches, all tightly integrated through WiFi with a cloud-based service.

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