As the name suggests, this is a balance between personal computing, with local applications, and web-based cloud computing.
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As I mentioned above there is little doubt that demand is growing for those network and computer security companies as consumers and businesses both embrace things like bring your own device (BYOD), cloud and web based computing and the shift from PCs to tablets.
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GigaSpaces provides a commercial alternative that has also won fans among some Web, cloud computing and online gaming firms, as well as financial services and telecom players with very large data analysis problems.
It offers Web services like cloud computing and cloud storage service offerings, in which it competes with bigger players like Google, Microsoft and Salesforce.com.
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Amazon offers web services like cloud computing and cloud storage competing with bigger players like Google, Microsoft and Salesforce.com in addition to being a major online retailer of books, DVDs, music, games, apparel and other merchandise.
Google for search marketing, PayPal for online payment, DHL and UPS for delivery, Amazon for cloud computing, and Akami for web content distribution.
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As the social web, cloud computing, blogging and other forms of new media have transformed the structures of communication in recent years, companies can leverage this metamorphosis in their approach to employee engagement by utilizing an integrated platform that allows for staff to connect with one another, their company, and their most cared-for causes.
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But breakthroughs in areas like mobile computing and Web-based, or "cloud, " services are "just beginning, " he says, and emerging markets have shown a voracious appetite for technology.
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Today, client-server architectures have been replaced by browser-based user Web applications and the cost of computing has fallen dramatically which, along with cloud computing, have made scalability issue quite a different proposition.
Resulting improvements are expected to bring benefits to enhance cloud computing, high-performance computing, web servers, transactional databases, and data analytics, while reducing power needs by nearly 10%.
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Lloyd says Cisco should benefit from a confluence of major current trends in computing, including the transition to mobile computing, the accelerated adoption of cloud services and the explosion in Web video.
IBM, in an experiment on cloud computing, developed a technology called the Spoken Web which allows people to create and navigate websites by voice, opening up a whole new world of opportunities for the vast number of illiterate people in India, and other developing countries.
In the brave era of cloud computing, software is sold on a subscription basis and delivered on-demand over the Web.
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