At that time, cloud was recognized as a distant fourth as a means to increase productivity.
At the same time, cloud computing raises a variety of legal issues that General Counsel must master.
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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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These days, the trends I am spending the most time on are cloud computing, social networking and mobility.
Big data processing is eminently feasible for even the small garage startups, who can cheaply rent server time in the cloud.
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Time for the cloud, a new survey out of Gartner finds.
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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.
These days, it costs just about the same to buy cloud time on, say, Amazon as it does to purchase your own in-house computing network.
If you're traveling and expect to use Maps to navigate, Google to scope out enjoyable things to do, your email app to keep in touch, Instagram to brag, Foursquare to keep tabs, Facebook to kill time and your cloud drive of choice to sift through flight and hotel confirmation PDFs, it'll be dangerously easy to exceed 100MB in a day.
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Regardless, now is the time to consider the cloud for the various different applications and systems you have.
In 2012, Microsoft Active Directory, Exchange and Office will give way to more real-time, social communication cloud applications, which run on mobile devices and browsers.
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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.
Nazim Richardson, Hopkins' long-time trainer, favorably compared Cloud's punching power to Antonio Tarver and Felix Trinidad.
Behind us, the sun showed itself for the first time, but an ominous cloud still hovered above the island in the distance.
With the cloud, the time from an idea to a new product or service can be measured in months, not years.
Startups are rolling out products and services like these in record time, relying on the cloud as a key competitive advantage.
Constellation Energy ( CEG) has been under a cloud for some time because of the controversy over its merger with Exelon.
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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On the ITO side, however, it will be some time before pure-play cloud providers such as Amazon or RackSpace will displace traditional outsourcing providers, Jones adds.
Then, that data was pushed to a tablet after placing the Droplet on the display, pulling up the same calendar appointment and providing a physical interface for adjusting the date and time, which is retained in the cloud and the module itself, which also outputs pulsing light as it counts down to the appointment time.
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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The plan it is deploying in startup time is a move to the cloud and to mobile.
His order is on appeal, but for the time being it has lifted the cloud that covered Little Managua.
Before we get too far down this road of ubiquitous surveillance, real-time upload and comprehensive analytics by cloud providers, we should pause to consider the implications.
It may have already been around for some time now, either in the cloud or within on-premises systems, but tools were not available to capture or analyze it.
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We're still not ready to apply the label "Gaming 3.0" here (or to anything, for that matter), but despite its boasts, GameString's making a compelling case for cloud-based play time.
Waits took to the stage dressed in a Chaplinesque suit, delivering his set from a slightly raised platform that gave up a cloud of dust each time he bashed his feet into it.
If the server farm is doing a lot of work to take in cell tower distance data and spit back car locations, it can certainly do each calculation faster than any endpoint, particularly a small one, but what happens when 1 million endpoints are hitting the cloud at the same time?
The time has come, however, where cloud needs to be considered as a strategic investment.
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