In fact, this definition of cloud computing service probably becomes co-extensive with the Internet generally.
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As a cloud computing service, Joyent manages things like server infrastructure and bandwidth needs for its customers.
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As a unique government-managed cloud computing service, G2G Cloud Solutions has no precedent.
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Powered by VMware Horizon Mobile, the Telefonica Dual Persona service will be offered as part of the Telefonica Cloud Computing service catalog.
Microsoft confirmed late Feb. 29 that a service outage that affected its Azure cloud computing service was caused by a Leap Year bug.
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When a company has a business opportunity that demands more processing capacity, or new applications, or adding hundreds of new users, they can dial it up through their cloud computing service provider with slightly more effort than it takes to get lunch delivered.
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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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Most of the concerns about cloud computing revolve around service up time, security and potential data loss.
Consumerization, virtualization, cloud computing, software as a service, mobility are all increasing the complexity of the job of managing IT by orders of magnitude.
With this approach, the servers could feasibly replace conventional furnaces, thus providing heat for the homes and buildings while providing computing resources for cloud service providers.
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Companies like Yammer and Socialcast have taken this category of social computing tools to new levels with Software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud computing, making it simple for any company of any size to deploy a similar model almost instantly for their own employees.
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If you want to capture the cloud sweet spot look to invest in Software as a Service companies as this segment of cloud computing is the most mature, according to our Tech Radar research (look for an update to this analysis in the fall) and thus seeing the strongest enterprise adoption.
IaaS covers most things that exist in a data center these days, but are delivered as a service from a cloud computing provider.
As IT budgets continue to face pressure in 2012, enterprises will focus more on leveraging external service providers and cloud computing to save capital expenditure.
It is used to deliver Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing in both private-cloud, public, and hybrid cloud environments.
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The cloud computing market consists of software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS).
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Much as Google has with its Google Drive service, Apple has embraced cloud computing with its iCloud offering, which lets users store documents, photos, music and movies on Web-based servers.
Google is taking on Microsoft with its cloud-based computing-as-a-service.
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As computing becomes a utility type service, cloud providers will be extensively more capable than any local staff.
At the time, many companies used software as a service (SaaS), but cloud computing had yet to enter into public consciousness.
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On level 2 you will see a new flexible service infrastructure, driven by innovations like cloud computing, that allow companies to configure and reconfigure services with unprecedented ease.
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Hadoop is rising to prominence in an era of ubiquitous cloud computing and proven models for Software-as-a-Service, which dilute the power of some of the traditional models for commercializing open source.
As I tried to show in my last column, as happens in every successful tech industry, the cloud computing industry has begun to stratify to offer different levels of service to different types of customers with different needs and price points.
Cloud computing, put broadly, is a term used to describe any service available on the internet.
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Companies like Workday, ServiceNow, Salesforce, these companies are doing a great service to the industry, helping people understand that cloud computing is appropriate for a wide array of old functions to the enterprise.
Relying on oil and gas wealth, the country has yielded only a handful of entrepreneurial successes: search engine Yandex, e-mail service Mail.ru, cyber security giant Kaspersky Labs, and cloud computing company Parallels.
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Smart IT leaders cope with this shortage of generalists by moving to hybrid IT departments that manage cloud computing as well as more traditional IT functions, and that essentially run as virtual internal service providers, drawing on a menu of external managed services as demand requires.
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According to GSA Portfolio Management Division Director Bill Lewis this lengthier than expected process will finally let infrastructure-as-a-service blanket purchase agreement awardees start selling their cloud services from the Apps.gov cloud computing website.
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