Next comes the job of winning managers and executives over to remote computing.

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The announcement shows IBM is confident enough in its capabilities as a provider of computing from remote locations to take them mainstream.

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Cloud computing runs software applications on remote servers for clients without the need for businesses to make expensive hardware purchases.

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Nobody that I have ever seen gets as much done with as little as our scrappy team here at InsideSales.com, leading our own corner of cloud computing, the world of remote sales.

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Apple has a tease from a Steve Jobs biographer that the late icon solved the TV remote nightmare, a known interest in wearable computing, but nothing tangible that anyone could dream on.

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That kind of remote storage is being viewed as the future of computing by companies like Apple, Google and Amazon, all of whom offer cloud-storage features.

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Other stalwarts rush to a future of cloud-based computing, with most of our business and personal lives moving into huge, remote data centers accessible via Web browsers.

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The "taken as read" prediction is the rise of "cloud computing, " which allows consumers to store data, and run apps from, remote servers on the Internet.

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