The enterprises have a suite of applications that can be launched from the cloud on a variety of devices.
But there may be a cloud on the horizon: a disappointing number for net new subscriber additions (4.5 million versus a 4.9 million expectation).
Close to half of the CIOs contributing to the Navint report expect to boost their private cloud budgets by more than 20%, and about a third will be increasing spending on public cloud services.
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It suggests that just a snippet of the beginning of a song (or movie, for that matter) could be stored locally on a device, and then be synced to the complete version in the cloud, which would let you begin playback "immediately" rather than having to wait for the usual buffering to take place.
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Data uploaded to the cloud can be viewed on a special pet owner web page, while transitions over time can be displayed as graphs, making them easier to understand and facilitating the instant detection of any changes in a pet's health.
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Since BI and analytics are data-intensive, there has got to be a lot of nervousness about relying on outside cloud providers handling massive amounts of corporate data.
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At MMS, Microsoft will be demonstrating a private cloud management stack that builds on virtualization and fully enables this new vision of private cloud management.
The planned expenditure will be focused on the creation of a number of next generation Cloud data centers, designed to enable both storage and virtualization.
Before, Cloud Print had to be bolted on to a printer with other apps and browser extensions.
Many analysts, including Gartner, predict that soon, business units outside of IT will spend more on technology than IT itself, and cloud will be a big part of this.
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But some steps we take to be more productive, such as setting up a team account on a cloud storage service, or bringing a personal tablet into the office, can inadvertently open holes in corporate defenses.
To effectively service an increasingly demanding and tech-savvy consumer base, financial institutions must be able to operate within a cloud environment - but on the surface that may seem incompatible with the regulatory strictures in which financial institutions operate.
Customers will be able to access and analyze DNA data on a password-protected computer cloud.
But the no-fly zone still applied to most of Britain, and a new cloud of volcanic ash was reported to be on its way.
And publishers no longer have to worry about piracy, as their games live in the cloud rather than on a disc that can be copied.
These applications are deeply connected across the ecosystem to bring together a complete and contextual set of information to the user to enable them to make empowered decisions, and can be delivered from the most suitable location for the business, whether that be traditional on-premises, hosted in a partner or delivered through a cloud service.
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Kevin Cavanaugh, VP, Business and Technical Strategy, IBM Collaboration Solutions, said that there will be native activity stream applications on mobile devices and tablets that will communicate with a cloud-based service that does the aggregation and helps figure out which activity streams are important to you.
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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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The Amazon Cloud Player can be accessed a web browser, as well as on Android phones, iPhones, Kindle Fire tablets and other devices.
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Like Life of Pi, Cloud Atlas was based on a book that many considered to be unfilmable because it dealt more with ideas than it did with action.
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Unlike other cloud gaming platforms, Agawi CloudPlay is a flexible, white-label B2B solution that can be deployed on an open cloud environment, eliminating the need to build proprietary data centers.
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In an ideal world, this coupling should be very loose, so that swapping out a traditional on-premises solution to something more cloud-like would not throw a wrench into a relatively smooth-running process.
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In fact, cloud-based applications are less likely to be attacked than on-premises environments, a new study of 70, 000 security breaches for a 12-month period across 1, 600 companies, released by by Alert Logic, a security vendor, concludes.
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Having a mixed portfolio of cloud services, as well as on-premises capabilities, may be the best way to guard sensitive data, they suggest.
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The typical migration path for this cohort of apps is to first place them on an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform, which at first will typically be on-premise for control purposes, but can then be migrated to a hosted (private) or public cloud later.
The Joint Private Cloud initiative would provide pre-integrated solutions based on joint technology development, and will be a one-stop-shop for sales and support.
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