The value of time share and the core value of cloud computing are pretty much the same, only the resources these days are much better and more cost effective.
At the same time our use of the cloud for access to content could well choke the available bandwidth on wired and wireless networks.
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At the time of the crash there was low cloud, poor visibility and patches of freezing fog.
Lana and Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwar, the writers, directors and producers of Cloud Atlas, scoured the globe to raise the rest of the money which really makes Cloud Atlas one of the most expensive independent films of all time.
When asked to estimate the average length of time it would take to complete the cloud migration for their applications, most IT professionals indicated the deployment would take less than six months.
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Beyond the obvious applications, the improvement of backend processing in the cloud coupled with WebRTC will make all manner of real time video and audio effects possible.
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If leaders of the U.S. military believe cloud computing is secure, then it might be time for civilian CIOs who have questioned the security capabilities of the cloud to reconsider.
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At the same time, end-user companies affirm that the rise of cloud is generally having a positive effect on IT employment.
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Fourteen years later, and after investing hundreds of millions of dollars and enduring years of criticism from skeptics in the industry, Netsuite now finds itself as one of the handful of business application providers who are offering a full suite of mature and time-tested, cloud-based applications to the SMB market.
My sense at the time of the interview was that he was 85% ready to go the cloud route.
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At the same time, cloud computing raises a variety of legal issues that General Counsel must master.
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The capabilities of cloud solutions will advance over time probably very quickly and smart organizations will commit to a constant adoption of new services.
Your iPhone is only smart and fast enough to connect in real time to the Mother Ship of Smarts in the Cloud.
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Either way, factories have to take advantage of new capabilities enabled by the increasingly rapid convergence of mobility, real-time complex data processing and analytics, cloud based services and machine-to-machine intelligence.
At the same time, we expect Cisco to benefit from the long-term growth trends of data demand and cloud computing which continue to remain sharp.
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Time for the cloud, a new survey out of Gartner finds.
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Begin by taking a 10-minute time out from shopping at one of the 11 cloud-like pods placed randomly around the store, which were launched in collaboration with Andy Puddicombe, a former Buddhist monk and creator of modern meditation enterprise Headspace.
In theory, the Olympics are a textbook example for the cloud, as it requires high data volume for a short period of time.
In late July SAP reported revenue growth of 35% across the board for the three months ended June 30, and the company is currently rolling out a new generation of real-time applications optimized for mobility, big data, and the cloud.
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At the same time, 40 to 50% of these organizations using IaaS use more than one of the same types of cloud.
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In the case of Eyjafjallajokull, the watchful eye of Icelandic radar meant the cloud's behaviour was reasonably well understood, even at the time.
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Constellation Energy ( CEG) has been under a cloud for some time because of the controversy over its merger with Exelon.
The time and resource intensive nature of this skillcraft is perfectly suited for the precision search and analytic capabilities of the modern compute cloud.
Most of the concerns about cloud computing revolve around service up time, security and potential data loss.
Amazon, which generates headlines every time its cloud crashes, is already going through the public bath of fire on these issues.
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You have to take things on a case-by-case basis, but as time progresses, cloud computing platforms are eliminating many of the platform tradeoffs.
Vega Cloud Live provides the functions like real-time synchronization of pictures and videos and smartphone personal configuration backup as well as up to 16GB of storage free of charge.
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Yammer is also a pure-play social platform built from ground up to leverage the converging trends of social, mobile, cloud, and real-time communication.
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In fact, the cloud is really a lot like the old time share solutions of the mainframe days, except that it exists in a highly virtualized world where your data, and perhaps your applications, may be physically located in a variety of places.
When combined with sophisticated analytic and financial control engines powered by companies such as Cloudability and Cloudyn that allow IT to monitor and develop strategies for Continuous Improvement and real-time redistribution of resources and spend, 2013 will be the year that the Cloud pays off.
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