Stock performance of public data-center companies had been strong until recently.

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Compared to a fully virtualized data center, especially a data center that makes use of private or public cloud resources, a physical data center moves at a snails pace.

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"This is a very real sign of the shift from the private data center to the public grid for computing, " says Carr.

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Brim examined data from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research in Storrs, Connecticut, on how important becoming famous is to people.

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We will see more data center based cloud storage (both private and public) as well as user clouds with addressable storage in a home or small office NAS device or even in a mobile storage device.

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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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Last week, IBM Research announced a pilot with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Public Health Data Standards Consortium to work on standardizing the exchange of health information among public health departments, doctors, and the CDC.

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If Deltacloud succeeds, an application should be able to be created that can run on a VM in a data center, on a private cloud infrastructure, or on the public cloud without modification.

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GlaxoSmithKline has in the past been at the center of scandals created in part by data on drugs that critics said was not made public in a timely manner, at the expense of patients who may have suffered dangerous side effects.

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