While gameplay remains the most important aspect of any interactive experience, the high definition visuals and latency-free experiences that the cloud opens up is upgrading games across the board.
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On the average, cloud users report they are shaving about 13 percent off their IT budgets as a result of cloud, up from 10 percent a year ago, the survey says.
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How fast is the cloud driving up energy consumption?
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Thinking that users will now be forced into their cloud services, Microsoft lined up some cloud offerings, including video service and music.
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It also updated its App Engine hosting service with PHP runtime, calling it "the most requested feature, " and launched Google Cloud Datastore to go up against AWS' cloud storage services.
Rackspace took over an abandoned shopping mall in downtown San Antonio and built an amazingly scaled-up cloud hosting center.
Cloud Ten ratcheted up the special effects and gunfire after hearing customers' pleas for more action in the movies.
SMBs can launch new operations in the cloud with little up-front capital.
Still, as the survey shows, organizations are scarfing up cloud services.
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Cloud computing is up to 40 times more cost-effective for a SMB, compared to the alternative of running its own IT system as a recent research shows.
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It greets you by name, it leads on content, you can buy content once and enjoy on a big ecosystem, and it keeps all of your content on the Amazon cloud, backed up for free.
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One survey found that the adoption of cloud applications is up 20 percent over a year ago, while another survey discovered that nearly 70 percent of respondents have either rolled out cloud projects or plan to do so soon.
In a survey of 323 SMBs just released by Spiceworks, a social business site, and sponsored by storage management vendor EMC, 62% report they are using some type of cloud application, up from 48% at the beginning of the year and 28% a year ago.
The Cloud Security Alliance is drawing up a new version of its Cloud Trust Protocol (CTP) that will create a clear set of transparent measures that can be applied to all CSPs.
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The battle for the cloud continues to heat up with HP announcing earlier today the latest addition to its portfolio of cloud related products and services.
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The Cloud Gigabit Router N300 is capable of up to 300 Mbps, while the Cloud Gigabit Router N600 hits 600 Mbps.
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To sum up, cloud tools can add a lot of efficiency to your business.
Video, mobile data, Web services and cloud storage are soaking up the once-forlorn fiber very quickly.
These days, setting up a cloud-based enterprise IT program is so easy that even non-IT types can manage it.
Naturally, cloud services is shaping up to be a huge deal, and it'll definitely support inductive charging via the Touchstone v2.
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Ultimately, many enterprises may leave it up to cloud-based providers to worry about hiring and staffing this new breed of high-level professional.
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Plowing the same patch on Thursday that he had plowed on Monday, sending up a cloud of dust that hovered in the air.
With competition heating up from cloud vendors, including Salesforce, Netsuite, and recently-IPOed Workday, customers do have a better case to make that they have options.
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For Vega R3, the 'pad' file created by a user can be automatically backed up to Cloud Live so that it can be reviewed anywhere and anytime.
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According to Mr. Smith, "hosting providers, businesses, and people with a cloud server who set up their own DNS resolver" often neglect to configure their servers using proper security settings.
Waits took to the stage dressed in a Chaplinesque suit, delivering his set from a slightly raised platform that gave up a cloud of dust each time he bashed his feet into it.
Over by the street-vendors, setting up their food stalls to tempt the hungry and exhausted, young men kick a ball about until the last of the light fades, scuffing up a cloud of dust with every footfall.
Companies just need to figure out which applications employees will need to tap into to be productive, make those programs available over the cloud, and develop security from the ground up for the devices accessing the cloud.
Low in the sky there's the classic cotton wool Cumulus, the Stratus, a layer of "rather dull" cloud, and higher up Cirrus - "a translucent delicate streak as if a watercolour brush has been stroked across the blue".
Google also features a line-up of cloud applications that make it a virtual one stop shop, and greatly enhances its brand, including Gmail, Google News, Google Docs and Spreadsheets, Google Chrome browser, Google reader, Froogle and the neat Google Earth.
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