Intel's famously demanding former chief quietly listened to executives politely pondering how Intel's microprocessors will be shaped by trends like Web computing.
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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The EC2 provides re-sizable computing capacity in the cloud, thus enabling easier web-scale computing for the developers.
Although it operates data centres of its own, it outsources much of its computing to Amazon Web Services, the cloud-computing arm of the online shopping giant.
As the name suggests, this is a balance between personal computing, with local applications, and web-based cloud computing.
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Linux acquired 12 million customers, all at the leading edge of Web-centric computing.
Chrome has another strike against it: a potential over-reliance on web-based computing.
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By enabling applications to both scale in capacity and provide non-stop availability, server-farms have played a major role in the rapid expansion of Web-based computing.
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Nebula makes web-scale computing nearly turnkey for anyone who needs it.
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The Pixel is a showcase, and it's a step forward as the percentage of tasks that can be addressed using web-centric computing continues to creep upward.
Suncalled the acquisition a further investment into the future of Web-based computing, to be pioneered by vendors like Oracle, with its new Sun-based Business Online database outsourcing service.
Web-based computing is nascent but is considered to be the wave of the future, and Microsoft knows it needs to figure out a strong game plan there.
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.
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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They also offer big data analytics, high performance computing, web and collaboration applications, and archiving and storage.
As has become the standard for new Web-based startups, the site is using Amazon Web Services to provide computing services.
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The market leaders are GoGrid, Rackspace and Amazon Web Services, the computing arm of the online retailer, which made headlines for kicking WikiLeaks off its servers.
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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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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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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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.
In fact, argues Nicholas Carr, the former editor of the Harvard Business Review and author of the new book The Big Switch, those Web applications are signs of a fundamental change, a shift from the desktop to the Web that could redefine computing--and Google's business model.
We're committing further to the UK, where computing and the web were invented.
Canvas then connects to Amazon Web Services, a cloud-computing network operated by Amazon.com Inc.
Specifically, mobile computing is changing the Web in a big way and the old rules are changing.
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Last June, Google began ramping up its pursuit of Amazon by unveiling Google Compute Engine, a cloud-computing competitor to Amazon Web Services.
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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.
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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But every few years the world gets a wild breakthrough--graphic computing in the 1980s, Web browsers in the 1990s, fast search engines today.
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