"Right, " I said, a shadow of doubt, a cloud floating across my sun.
As the sun sets each night, a black cloud emerges from under the bridge as the creatures go in search of moths and other bugs to call dinner.
Now Cisco is showcasing Lew Tucker, a well-known veteran of developer work at both Salesforce and the pre-Oracle Sun Microsystems, who came on as cloud CTO in the middle of this year.
Just think of a cloud moving in front of the sun, taking your solar generation down instantaneously.
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Just as Major League Baseball is moving to shake off its steroid cloud under the warmth of spring-training sun, one of its biggest former stars continues to cast a shadow over the sport.
The products involved are the already familiar engineered appliances Exadata Database Machine, Exalogic Elastic Cloud, Exalytics In-Memory Machine, Sun ZFS Storage Appliance and the SPARC SuperCluster, an appliance running Solaris 11 on up to 16 SPARC processors with eight cores each.
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Long-period comets can arrive from any direction in space and are believed to originate in the Oort cloud (a reservoir of comets encircling the sun, the existence of which was worked out at the same time as the Kuiper belt by Jan Oort, a Dutch astronomer).
The sun is shining today, but such problems seem sure to cloud Mr Tusk's future.
Behind us, the sun showed itself for the first time, but an ominous cloud still hovered above the island in the distance.
Along the bank, a breeze sweeps pink sand into the water, a cloud of fairy dust twinkling in a beam of sun.
The sky will be a deep, vivid red because the sun will, in essence, have turned into a huge red cloud.
These systems must be smart enough to independently switch back and forth from solar when the sun is out to fuel at night or when there is heavy cloud cover.
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The author, Gavin Pretor-Pinney, is the founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society, and aims to convert even the most sun-loving reader.
Scientists are eager to examine the asteroids because they formed in the same primordial cloud of gas and stellar material that collapsed to make the sun and the planets about 4.5 billion years ago.
When the sun finally went down, the sky above the hills remained pale blue, the cloud bottoms all salmon and orange.
Enki may not be able to leverage millions of servers like big companies including Sun Microsystems, Amazon, or IBM, which are also offering utility, or "cloud, " computing services.
The spreading of the cloud darkens the outlook for traditional hardware makers such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems, which have already been buffeted by fears of a U.S. recession.
But the reason that they come near the sun at all is because their original orbits, which kept them in the distant realm of the Oort cloud, had been somehow disturbed.
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