Apparently consumers were more interested in storing information on their devices than in a cloud storage service.
For now, the workers labour in a cloud of red dust, stirred up by the earth-moving equipment.
The solution was to implement an automated, online public record-tracking system run in a cloud-based instance of Dynamics CRM.
"Sometimes people are afraid to turn the thing on in case it disappears in a cloud of smoke, " he said.
Meanwhile, Oracle, which has been in a cloud battle with Salesforce.com and Microsoft, just strengthened its enterprise standing.
Joel Kitchen, of Brightlingsea, Essex, was 26 when he vanished in a cloud in a remote area in India in 2002.
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F5 and Riverbed speed up the software that travels via the Web, which is how software is delivered in a cloud world.
The heavy gas then sank to the ground and rolled in a cloud several tens of metres deep across the surrounding countryside.
This new product will be employed in a cloud service that provides pet owners with assistance in managing the health of pets.
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"He had just disappeared in a cloud one day, " said Mr Kitchen.
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For example, if your photos are all stored in a cloud storage service in the future, how do you get them on Facebook?
In this devil of a job market, many young adults now exist in a cloud of overconfidence with an illusion of endless time.
While it may be cost effective to outsource certain applications, it isn't necessarily true that it makes sense to run them in a cloud.
In contrast, generic pricing and publicly available information is fine in a cloud, as long as it's run separately from a database containing customer names and credit card data.
Schmidt says the advantage of Google Wallet is that it is a one-stop way of managing things, he says all of that is fundamentally easier in a cloud based model.
Sweet Spot Petra has gobbled up market share in Southeast Asia, leaving its European and U.S. competitors in a cloud of cocoa dust. 2005 market share (dollar value) Source: Euromonitor International.
The pork-barrel king of Tipperary North, Michael Lowry, topped the poll as an independent although he was lately sacked as a minister, and from Fine Gael, in a cloud of sleaze.
Besides identity rising in significance in a cloud, mobile and social world, the traditional concept of identity is going to change and will be radically transformed itself by those three forces.
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Consider this scenario: A department with a pain point around visualizing and using large data sets could easily snap in a cloud provider through an easy-to-engage vendor who meets this specific need after a short departmental-led decision process.
Yes, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, debuting Monday in a cloud version and then next month in the on-premise and partner models, is getting close to Salesforce.com in terms of features and functions, says Nucleus Research VP Rebecca Wettemann.
The City currently stores and manages some data in a cloud solution, such as the Chicago Department of Aviation's data related to airline billing and building plan information as part of the Department of Buildings' E-Plan review system.
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The basis for the platform centers around research related to Microsoft's Singularity project, and envisions a distributed environment where applications, documents, and connectivity are blurred in a cloud-computing phantasmagoria which can be run natively or hosted across multiple systems.
One rocket leaves the launch pad, executes a 90-degree turn about 50 feet off the ground, streaks at several hundred miles an hour straight toward a group of landsailers, crashing just short of them in a cloud of white dust.
The trouble with this approach to the relatively slow interconnection of the processors, latency and lack of real-time security is that there are synchronization and communication challenges, software programming complexities and other issues that are exacerbated in a cloud computing environment.
But the actual hosting of the application, the actual requirements for that application to exist in a cloud environment, to connect to the virtualized resources and whatever administration tools the cloud providers may give you to configure and maintain the application, will be, for the most part, controlled by the cloud provider.
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Other software works on ways to transform applications while minimizing risks like compliance or dependence on the software by a remote department, then put it in a cloud environment, untied to any particular server if that is appropriate. (This stage is where the Microsoft part comes in.) Afterward, there is a security assessment, checking software for security attacks in real time.
It recently launched in Dubai a mobile cloud center which will provide a variety of cloud and data center services to companies in the region.
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Why would you want to copy and distribute dozens of plastic DVDs to people, if you had it available to you in a centralized server on the cloud, in a secure environment that was only accessible by the people who needed to have access to it?
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