During the two decades the survey covers, global computing capacity increased by 58% per year.
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Hewlett-Packard is one of the global providers of computing and imaging solutions and services for business and home.
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There is a global market for talent and all software and cloud computing companies are now required to be global if they want to compete.
These findings expand on the Cisco Global Cloud Index, which predicts that more than 50% of computing workloads in data centers will be cloud-based by 2014, and that global cloud traffic will grow over 12 times by 2015, to 1.6 zettabytes per year.
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"The global economy continues to shift to mobile handheld computing, " said chief executive Carl Yankowski.
The companies who figure out how to capture business value from all that digital exhaust will surely have a competitive advantage in a global economy increasingly driven by data and pervasive computing.
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When viewed from a global perspective, however, the potential of cloud computing is far beyond server consolidation and virtualization.
Micron Technology is a global maker of semiconductors that store and retrieve data used by the computing, consumer, networking, telecommunications, and imaging markets.
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It could break the global Internet into unconnected islands of national or regional networks, extend telecommunications regulations to computing, or lead to onerous government regulation of the Internet.
Vertex labs are packed with workstations that tap 112 Pentium chips in parallel, capable of crunching 110 gigaflops per second, roughly the same computing power used to produce the National Weather Service's two-week global climate model.
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