He says his startup would not have been possible without cloud computing.
Many of the startups he works with would not have been able to get off the ground without cloud offerings such as that Cycle is offering.
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Microsoft is still without a cloud offering in core business software.
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Fortunately, there are steps that companies can take to manage cloud sprawl without sacrificing the opportunities that public cloud services can deliver.
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Some vendors, such as Red Hat and Rackspace, are consciously positioning themselves as advocates of an open cloud built around open source, and foresee great benefits accruing to the enterprises that can charge into the cloud without being locked in to a particular vendor, particularly when it comes to cloud infrastructure.
"With iTwin SecureBox, users can store sensitive data in the Cloud without fear", says Lux, CEO of iTwin.
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Earlier on Sunday it was reported the Dutch airline KLM had flown through the ash cloud without the test plane being damaged.
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Finally, what would a data center discussion be without including the cloud.
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If Deltacloud succeeds, an application should be able to be created that can run on a VM in a data center, on a private cloud infrastructure, or on the public cloud without modification.
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In addition, 27 percent say that people in their organizations are buying cloud services without involving IT.
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This approach also enables business owners to switch cloud vendors without worrying about many of the operational details.
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Employees can directly buy technology (cloud) without huge capital investments or corporate approvals.
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Cubby also gives people the option to simply share or sync an unlimited amount of information across their devices for free, and without ever counting against cloud storage limits.
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If I am not mistaken, with its cloud-based computing, Amazon cannot separate a book sale transaction from a data cloud rental without incurring significant additional costs in redundant and unnecessary IT infrastructure.
While nearly two-thirds of the companies surveyed have policies in place that prohibit employees from using unmanaged cloud services, the vast majority of respondents indicate there are no real ramifications for utilizing cloud services without going through proper IT channels.
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Without such a provision, cloud-computing and digital-storage companies could be accused of abetting infringement.
In fact, 20 percent of business leaders said they had purchased a cloud service themselves without approval from IT.
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It morphed into crowd labor, and cloud labor, without us noticing, and that is where its biggest impact will soon be felt.
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The company just announced Cloud Foundry, an open source system in which developers can build applications for cloud computing, without having to work in specific underlying technologies.
The careful line Microsoft has to walk is this: they need to support the growing corporate interest in cloud computing, without abandoning their belief in rich clients.
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So what happens to the role of the IT department when a large percentage of contextual functions can be outsourced to cloud vendors, without the need for onsite infrastructure?
In the context of the hype, confusion and simplistic vendor models, we come across organizations that have assumed that cloud could be implemented within their existing business and IT architecture without recognizing the significant transformation that must occur before cloud benefits can be fully gained.
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Our customers can use our technology without any changes needed to the cloud application.
So any of our clients, if they are sending to a local pharmacy, or to a specialist or laboratory, they can "friend" that laboratory or specialist or pharmacy onto athenaNet, and without getting onto any of our other services, that entity can start paying for and receiving online clinical information from our cloud-based service without having to be on it.
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Those companies already have strong brand names and just need to be hooked up to the big cloud of investors, preferably without delays and glitches.
Renting a server from Amazon Web Services promises all the advantages of the Cloud: ephemeral, convenient computing without the nuisance of owning hardware.
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Cubby Pro's distinct DirectSync mode provides the ability to sync an unlimited amount of information across computers (PCs and Macs) without ever having to store your data in the cloud.
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Cloud-based gaming company OnLive recently and without any warning laid off its entire staff.
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Files stored in the cloud can still be easily lost or subpoenaed without the users' knowledge, Jeschke noted, an issue that's often overlooked.
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