Microsoft confirmed late Feb. 29 that a service outage that affected its Azure cloud computing service was caused by a Leap Year bug.
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In fact, this definition of cloud computing service probably becomes co-extensive with the Internet generally.
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As a cloud computing service, Joyent manages things like server infrastructure and bandwidth needs for its customers.
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As a unique government-managed cloud computing service, G2G Cloud Solutions has no precedent.
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When a company has a business opportunity that demands more processing capacity, or new applications, or adding hundreds of new users, they can dial it up through their cloud computing service provider with slightly more effort than it takes to get lunch delivered.
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IaaS covers most things that exist in a data center these days, but are delivered as a service from a cloud computing provider.
As IT budgets continue to face pressure in 2012, enterprises will focus more on leveraging external service providers and cloud computing to save capital expenditure.
This was the story of a man who wanted to completely figure out and embody what it means to be human, and just as completely figure out what computing in service of the fully-human should look like.
Companies like Yammer and Socialcast have taken this category of social computing tools to new levels with Software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud computing, making it simple for any company of any size to deploy a similar model almost instantly for their own employees.
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Most of the concerns about cloud computing revolve around service up time, security and potential data loss.
It is used to deliver Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing in both private-cloud, public, and hybrid cloud environments.
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Their original strategy was to go after Web-hosting firms and Internet service providers looking for cheap computing muscle.
If computing becomes a service delivered over the internet, it will hardly matter how the underlying software is developed.
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When a person becomes dependent upon or alters their lifestyle to accommodate the power of a computing platform, then I think you can say you have a lifestyle computing product or service.
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With this approach, the servers could feasibly replace conventional furnaces, thus providing heat for the homes and buildings while providing computing resources for cloud service providers.
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It offers Web services like cloud computing and cloud storage service offerings, in which it competes with bigger players like Google, Microsoft and Salesforce.com.
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Much as Google has with its Google Drive service, Apple has embraced cloud computing with its iCloud offering, which lets users store documents, photos, music and movies on Web-based servers.
As computing becomes a utility type service, cloud providers will be extensively more capable than any local staff.
At the time, many companies used software as a service (SaaS), but cloud computing had yet to enter into public consciousness.
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Consumerization, virtualization, cloud computing, software as a service, mobility are all increasing the complexity of the job of managing IT by orders of magnitude.
If you want to capture the cloud sweet spot look to invest in Software as a Service companies as this segment of cloud computing is the most mature, according to our Tech Radar research (look for an update to this analysis in the fall) and thus seeing the strongest enterprise adoption.
On level 2 you will see a new flexible service infrastructure, driven by innovations like cloud computing, that allow companies to configure and reconfigure services with unprecedented ease.
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In next-generation computing, intelligent devices will control service on the network, and bandwidth -- once a profit center for telecom carriers -- will become a commodity, Capellas said.
Google is taking on Microsoft with its cloud-based computing-as-a-service.
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With more computing moving to these software as a service models, companies no longer need to manage complex desktop PC environments.
The cloud computing market consists of software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS).
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In addition, IBM said it is piloting a next-generation service platform, displaying public, private and hybrid enterprise computing models.
Companies like Workday, ServiceNow, Salesforce, these companies are doing a great service to the industry, helping people understand that cloud computing is appropriate for a wide array of old functions to the enterprise.
Vertex labs are packed with workstations that tap 112 Pentium chips in parallel, capable of crunching 110 gigaflops per second, roughly the same computing power used to produce the National Weather Service's two-week global climate model.
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