According to a recent report, 46 percent of CIOs are expected to have more than half of their infrastructure and applications operating in the cloud by 2015.

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If more horsepower is needed, then the user can quickly switch into the main operating system, which Cloud continues to load in the background.

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In bringing Ubuntu to the phone, Canonical is uniquely placed with a single operating system for client, server and cloud, and a unified family of interfaces for the phone, the PC and the TV.

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Resulting in an emerging ecosystem of Insurers, brokers, and cloud marketplaces to provide that actionable data, and operating on the principle that cloud is a commodity .

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