In Arkansas, wind shears and unstable weather conditions suitable for forming super cells, extremely large cloud systems capable of generating powerful tornadoes, were approaching Little Rock.
In the very large cloud centers, where we run the Windows Azure, Office 365, Xbox Live and Bing services (among others), application service levels are all that matter.
This week at Dreamforce, a large cloud computing event sponsored by Salesforce.com, customer service company Genesys will announce a new application for use on the Salesforce.com application platform.
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But as the platform-as-a-service delivery model grows, it will intensify the competition between large cloud service providers and enterprise software suppliers, which look to capture the growing, market, Gartner predicted.
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Dell previously missed out on a large cloud opportunity when it lost the bid for 3Par to HP (See HP Emerges as Victor Over Dell in Battle for 3Par).
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Hong-Sheng Zhao of Leiden University in the Netherlands calculates that a close encounter with another one of the Milky Way's satellites, the Large Magellanic Cloud, could have knocked Sgr into a closer orbit two or three billion years ago.
His company is a leader in large-scale cloud solutions, with about 2, 500 global clients.
And therefore we see a large opportunity for cloud gaming in China.
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These proposed interventions range from ocean fertilization to large-scale cloud seeding.
The types of people Mitchell needs would ideally have experience in a fast growing company and of the engineering demands of large enterprise, Cloud-based software support.
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For such a large-scale cloud service, the concept of only being able to view your documents or other files without the ability to edit them is completely unacceptable.
To clarify: I think multitenancy rocks for large-scale cloud applications.
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The larger opportunity for F5, and investors, is in the large shift happening to cloud computing.
SeaMicro technologies offer substantial advantages in large data center and cloud environments.
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Although consumers may lag in their understanding of the cloud, many large corporations have no trouble seeing the advantages, and are embracing it.
While small- and medium-sized businesses have been diving into cloud services, large enterprises have been slower to make the move, citing concerns about privacy, reliability and legacy integration.
Enterprises with large incumbent vendors are introducing cloud-based infrastructure and platform alternatives to provide new options, increase competitive pressures, and successfully shift vendor negotiating leverage to their favor.
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In the face of all of those daunting challenges, more and more businesses and other types of large organizations are turning to cloud computing to let them handle the surging volumes of data and demanding workloads in a manner that also lets those customers begin spending less on low-value overhead and infrastructure and more on customer-facing growth initiatives.
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We are still in the early stages of cloud, and the challenges of moving large, core applications such as enterprise resource planning and financials to more virtualized or cloud settings are still ahead of us.
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In simplified terms the system will be a hybrid network of satellite and terrestrial facilities tied to a ship cloud to transfer very large amounts of data and store it onboard.
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Just as with the Linux operating system, which started small with certain workloads, then expanded into large deployments, migrating to the cloud is likely to be an iterative process, with several learning cycles.
Many SMBs and large organizations are moving towards subscription based cloud offerings to lower their maintenance and deployment costs.
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Companies large and small are moving to these cloud-based services to save costs and to make working remotely more efficient.
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While Google still needs to fulfill certain terms and conditions, a successful deal with a giant like GM would certainly brew interest in other large-scale corporations to incorporate the cloud.
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Large enterprises certainly want to jump on the cloud megatrend.
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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.
Large enterprises will continue to adopt incremental pieces of cloud services to complement existing on-premises solutions.
The advantage of running it as a cloud is getting maximum utilization across a large data center.
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It is one of the largest providers of public cloud compute capacity and rents out a large part of its data center capacity.
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