Faulkner founded Epic in 1979, with the original name of Human Services Computing.
The 22-person firm, which sells software for integrating and divvying up the servers of computers used by cloud computing services, is pushing an initiative it calls "Open Cloud, " a cloud computing standard that would allow a company's IT systems to be shared between different cloud computing services and moved freely between them.
As has become the standard for new Web-based startups, the site is using Amazon Web Services to provide computing services.
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For example, Ohio, Texas, New York South Carolina and Washington tax computing services directly, while Utah and the City of Chicago tax the cloud only when deals involve the transfer of control or possession of software as well as computing services, according to national tax-services company WTAS. At least two states, Vermont and Idaho, have recently passed rules to explicitly exempt cloud-based services from state sales tax.
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Amazon launched its service in March 2006 by renting basic data storage and has since gone into services like computing and databases.
The services survey includes transport, storage and communication, financial intermediation, business services, personal services, computing and IT, and hotels and restaurants, but does not include the retail sector.
"We really view it as creating a new computing platform, with business services and big computing farms" powering Yahoo!
In other words, goes this argument from a company now based on delivering services, cloud computing is really about the services.
Although it operates data centres of its own, it outsources much of its computing to Amazon Web Services, the cloud-computing arm of the online shopping giant.
It's plenty easy for users of cloud computing services to store data in just one click.
Google, he said, is investing in new types of mobile services including cloud computing applications.
But for now, those larger companies are treating utility computing services as side projects or experiments.
The provision of cloud-based computing services will have Microsoft duking it out with Apple, Google, Amazon and many others.
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Learning to allocate shared costs over a wide variety of computing services is going to take time to get right.
The segment offers operating systems, network services and workgroup computing software solutions based on the Linux open source operating system.
So how big are the clouds and what percentage of companies currently use applications that run on cloud computing services?
IaaS offers basic computing services, from number crunching to data storage, which customers can combine to build highly adaptable computer systems.
After pioneering online sales of books and music, Amazon has become a significant player in offering cloud storage and computing services.
That mindset sets Lenovo apart from other PC giants (HP, Dell) that have moved towards selling higher-margin services and cloud computing.
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But the trend of cloud computing is expanded beyond basic computing services.
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The company touted its offerings of cloud-based storage and financial computing services.
Although cloud computing services have grown rapidly in popularity over time, there are significant signs that they have failed to grow in profitability.
GigaOm asserted that the deal would be intended to build a cloud computing services company that could complete with Google, Microsoft and Amazon.com.
Amazon Web Services has already announced its reserved instances marketplace, essentially an eBay for selling off unused portions of pre-purchased AWS computing services.
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Glassey says the patent, which was approved in April 2002, laid a foundation for subsequent location based services on mobile computing devices, such as smartphones.
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The question now is whether there will be any lingering impact of the technical troubles for Amazon, which dominates the market for cloud-based computing services.
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From 1991 through January 2000, Mr. Case also served as Chief Executive Officer of America Online, which he co-founded in 1985 as Quantum Computing Services.
Our relationship goes back more than a decade, when Chip was selling cloud based computing services to companies that were just getting dial-up internet connections.
Financial services uses grid computing more than other industries because it runs thousands of jobs simultaneously, as in Monte Carlo simulations for risk, Fisher said.
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