Today meteorologists use 10 cloud genera and 14 different species that describe the shape and structure of each type of cloud.
Commercial, scientific and government organizations are figuring out ways to collect new types of data and bringing them into a new type of cloud.
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Keep in mind that a report from Gartner predicts that about 25% of enterprises will use some type of cloud information protection technology by 2016.
In a survey of 323 SMBs just released by Spiceworks, a social business site, and sponsored by storage management vendor EMC, 62% report they are using some type of cloud application, up from 48% at the beginning of the year and 28% a year ago.
In fact, about three fourths of the organizations that use cloud computing are using more than one type of IaaS cloud.
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Most new applications that leverage a cloud platform also understand how to leverage this type of architecture to take advantage of the cloud-delivered resources.
McDonald also told me that organizations are hiring a new type of IT position, a cloud architect, in addition to enterprise architects.
If we were smarter we would be latching onto the many small opportunities this new type of economy is creating: in Cloud services, developer ecosystems, content ecosystems, customer ecosystems etc.
The move to cloud means a different type of economics is emerging, the report explains.
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Although most cloud services offer some type of firewall and networking configuration control, capabilities are typically very limited, and IT administrators have very limited visibility into how they work.
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"Off the top of my head, two other songs that I can immediately think of with this type of lyric are 'Hey, hey, you, you get off of my cloud' by the Rolling Stones and 'Hey little girl I want to be your boyfriend' by the Ramones, " she said.
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The source can be from emails, email attachments, bots, Trojans, and other sources that can be introduced via any computer file type from any device type including all forms of mobile devices, the cloud, the web and even via a virtual private network (VPN).
The Watson-type arrays will populate in the Cloud in the thousands of huge buildings, data centers, already around the world, with more proliferating.
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It is also a recognition that Microsoft contends in a world where companies like Amazon and Google offer a lot of Microsoft-type server and operational software, through cloud-based services.
When asked what type of investments companies were likely to make in technology, cloud computing, at 40%, had emerged close to automation of business processes (46%), and data analytics (41%), as an investment priority.
Google for .search, .cloud and .gmbh (a reference to a type of limited German company).
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