They say it will offer the same comprehensive one-stop cloud hardware and software shopping as HP and IBM, with more up-to-date equipment.
We need to stop surrounding the cloud with a fog of tech-speak and explain to potential users what it can do for them, rather than focusing on how it works.
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If this plays out, and consumers look to PayPal as their one-stop online and offline cloud-based mechanism, it could be a meaningful rival to the credit card companies.
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It was a harmless piece of winter, an errant cold cloud making a pit stop here, inflicting no permanent damage.
Throughout the day, casual patrons can stop in for sandwiches on ethereal, cloud-like focaccia, or homemade gelato.
Similarly, a pale room needs some anchoring items to stop it from floating off on a cloud of pastel marshmallows.
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Hanging cloud cover didn't stop many from discarding plastic ponchos and hat covers, which began piling up around the grandstand.
The difficulty, of course, is that the very nature of public cloud services means there are few barriers to stop employees from simply using a credit card to self-provision a useful new capability.
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Google also features a line-up of cloud applications that make it a virtual one stop shop, and greatly enhances its brand, including Gmail, Google News, Google Docs and Spreadsheets, Google Chrome browser, Google reader, Froogle and the neat Google Earth.
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Maybe someday all that grandfathering can stop, since it will all that setup will be in the cloud.
We can stop speculating, hopefully stop cloudwashing, and get down to the real business of incorporating cloud services and platforms into our formal IT portfolios.
But the idea of handing over your entire computing system to a multinational running a cloud computing system is that they have in place the structures to stop such mistakes.
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While many hope the improved transatlantic coordination will stop the downward slide, recession looms over both sides of the Atlantic like a dark cloud.
Schmidt says the advantage of Google Wallet is that it is a one-stop way of managing things, he says all of that is fundamentally easier in a cloud based model.
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