Making the processing of the voice recognition a function of the hardware of the device, makes that aspect of the application asynchronous with the actual database query.

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The station database available through the application contains thousands of radio stations whose programmes can be accessed online.

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Imagine if the problem had been first identified in November via a process to audit related systems based on the one reported intrusion into the internal chat application, or if an intrusion detection system had started firing red based on the exfiltration of their entire MySQL database.

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An example of an application that does not work well in a simple cloud environment is a shared database, such as the typical Oracle database application, where the information is one big block of data that needs to be manipulated all the time by many computing processes and where access to the shared data needs to be synchronized and managed.

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Companies like FluidOps make replicating all levels of a virtual landscape--the data, database, application, and operating system--a one-click operation.

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Moreover, the application will source play play-by-play data and a database of stats going back 120 years to generate the real-time predictions on any given outcome during the game.

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Securing a small business' computer systems--which might involve all sorts of gorpy stuff like firewalls, application Web network scanners, access controls and database encryption--can run into the tens of thousands of dollars, says Litan.

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