Data centers are growing at a quick rate to deal with the rapid growth of on-line (or cloud) services and storage.
Bottom line: cloud adoption is still an immature process, and organizations are still exploring and getting comfortable with the mixes and matches of private, public and hybrid cloud services.
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Large capacity HDDs using this technology will find uses for near line content libraries, cloud storage environments and public data centers.
Google also features a line-up of cloud applications that make it a virtual one stop shop, and greatly enhances its brand, including Gmail, Google News, Google Docs and Spreadsheets, Google Chrome browser, Google reader, Froogle and the neat Google Earth.
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Lawyers and legislators are pressing to bring international law in line with the realities of cloud computing.
Cloud computing empowered the line of business manager to go around the command-and-control CIO.
For added network safety, the Cloud Storage 4000 features the D-Link Surveillance Station App, which supports recording and playback of up to four IP cameras, such as D-Link's award-winning line-up of mydlink enabled cloud cameras.
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The bottom line is people have become comfortable with cloud, and this level of comfort is percolating into corporate policy.
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The question is: would you hire someone who has the edge with managing cloud-based resources for a line of business?
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We also offer a complete line of desktop, server, mobile and cloud technologies that bring document recognition and data capture solutions to any device.
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Far in the distance, a neat line moves across the horizon, trailing puffs of cloud like a steam train.
Operational competitiveness is the new dividing line between the success stories and also-rans in cloud computing and Internet services, said Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation during a panel discussion at the Big Science conference that took place in San Jose this week.
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Thus the battle between local and on-line storage continues to drive a new generation of enterprise storage for the cloud as well as external local storage for mobile devices.
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Of course, that seems like the goal of every old-line hardware and software giant who is trying to move to the world of cloud computing.
Instinctively it would seem that cloud computing technology would be a critical weapon to break down the line of business silos that exist in retail banks.
The growth of information that is available on-line has led to a great number of new businesses and opportunities ranging from cloud storage to content delivery to data analytics.
With Windows Embedded, developers can use the same trusted tools used in building applications for Windows 8 to build specialized devices within line-of-business applications - extending the power of Windows 8 and the cloud to intelligent systems.
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Corporate IT remains one center of cloud computing, but more technology workloads are coming under the domain of business line managers.
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Dell's server growth was driven by its new, 12th-Generation line, leadership in hyper-scale infrastructure solutions and an increase in customer adoption of cloud solutions for their IT requirements.
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What's more is that the application acts as an extension of the firm's Preva fitness tracking console built into its 880 line of cardio equipment, and keeps data synced between devices and exercise machines through the cloud.
The careful line Microsoft has to walk is this: they need to support the growing corporate interest in cloud computing, without abandoning their belief in rich clients.
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Storage in the cloud is a great thing and is a key element enabling many applications including on-line backup and collaborative work as well as social networking.
With the explosion of data resulting from mobile devices, Internet services, social media and business applications, corporate, cloud and big data customers are constantly looking for ways to improve their storage infrastructure costs and their bottom line.
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