It's plenty easy for users of cloud computing services to store data in just one click.
So how big are the clouds and what percentage of companies currently use applications that run on cloud computing services?
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Although cloud computing services have grown rapidly in popularity over time, there are significant signs that they have failed to grow in profitability.
GigaOm asserted that the deal would be intended to build a cloud computing services company that could complete with Google, Microsoft and Amazon.com.
As tech companies like Apple, Amazon and Google expand the offerings of their cloud computing services, the amount of power going into data centers continues to grow.
He avowed that IBM will continue to create solutions that help their clients increase efficiency through cloud computing services and infrastructure and electricity monitoring and analytics systems.
So after pioneering online retailing, Amazon has moved into selling all manner of goods including clothes, into providing cloud computing services, and now hardware to give users access to all sorts of media content.
The 22-person firm, which sells software for integrating and divvying up the servers of computers used by cloud computing services, is pushing an initiative it calls "Open Cloud, " a cloud computing standard that would allow a company's IT systems to be shared between different cloud computing services and moved freely between them.
Our relationship goes back more than a decade, when Chip was selling cloud based computing services to companies that were just getting dial-up internet connections.
The reluctance to make major technology investments, particularly when baseline technologies may be undergoing fundamental changes, may well lead to a broader adoption of cloud-computing services and other managed virtual environments.
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Although a deal expected Friday from ServiceNow Inc. on the NYSE is generating positive buzz, that is largely due to the company's strong revenue growth and its business in a popular niche, cloud-computing services.
In other words, goes this argument from a company now based on delivering services, cloud computing is really about the services.
The provision of cloud-based computing services will have Microsoft duking it out with Apple, Google, Amazon and many others.
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After pioneering online sales of books and music, Amazon has become a significant player in offering cloud storage and computing services.
But the trend of cloud computing is expanded beyond basic computing services.
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The question now is whether there will be any lingering impact of the technical troubles for Amazon, which dominates the market for cloud-based computing services.
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Enki may not be able to leverage millions of servers like big companies including Sun Microsystems, Amazon, or IBM, which are also offering utility, or "cloud, " computing services.
For example, the IP data center segment grew by 170% year-on-year, reflecting the fact that many companies are buying high-end servers that can handle the massive Internet traffic associated with cloud-based computing services.
Operational competitiveness is the new dividing line between the success stories and also-rans in cloud computing and Internet services, said Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation during a panel discussion at the Big Science conference that took place in San Jose this week.
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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.
Powerset was among the earliest users of Intel 8-core processors, as well as an early user of Amazon EC2 cloud computing and Mechanical Turk services.
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Google, he said, is investing in new types of mobile services including cloud computing applications.
Gartner says that IT organizations will spend more on private cloud computing than on public cloud services through 2014.
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That mindset sets Lenovo apart from other PC giants (HP, Dell) that have moved towards selling higher-margin services and cloud computing.
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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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They claim to bring the pricing and risk management strategies of the financial commodities markets to cloud computing via revenue-generating services that add convenience and value to the cloud user.
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Mainly, IBM in recent years has been known for using acquisitions in products such as cloud computing, analytics and consulting services to spark growth and improve profitability in a huge, mature company.
With big players like Amazon and Google in the Cloud Service Provision business, and organizations as diverse as Reddit and the City of Los Angeles using those services, cloud computing promises huge savings in cost and complexity.
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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.
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