There are plenty of great managed server companies around that do what Amazon does, but they cost more.

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Of course, getting a new server for your business (or signing up for a managed server in the cloud) is not something that people do every day.

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Huberty sees a divergence in the server market, with a 1% decline this year in server shipments into company-owned data centers, while managed hosting and cloud server shipments grow int he double digits.

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However, owing to their inherent architectural differences, BB10 and the existing crop of BB devices cannot be managed by the same server.

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"An Ubuntu tablet is a secure thin client that can be managed with the same tools as any Ubuntu server or desktop, " said Stephane Verdy, who leads enterprise desktop and thin client products at Canonical.

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In the SDN approach, those control functions are split off to be managed by one central program, which may be run on an inexpensive server system.

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