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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In 2010, if consumers had been given the chance to test cloud services from Apple, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) or Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), they would have gladly chosen Apple because they trust the name.

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Kevin Yee, administrator of cardiology at Henry Ford, says managing images was becoming a logistical nightmare when the hospital decided to test the cloud system in 2011.

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Our research also shows that test and development projects in the cloud are just as likely to go to production in the cloud as they are to come back to your data center.

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Shiv found that his healthy test subjects allowed their prior losses to cloud their judgment, causing them to be excessively risk averse.

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Some firms bring in specialist advisers to plan, test and manage their technology set-ups in the cloud.

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Together with Intrinsic-ID, NXP will demonstrate PUF technology on a SmartMX2 test chip with Intrinsic ID's SESAMES-award winning SATURNUS secure cloud application.

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With the Focus Electric rolling into showrooms, I took a pre-production model on a two-week tech test drive around the San Francisco Bay Area last month to experience daily life in the cloud with an electric car.

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