Some large companies are also creating their own applications and hosted services, says Slattery.
With virtualization and hosted services, people are just not buying servers as much as they did in the past.
We share our documents, spreadsheets and data with them using hosted services like Google Docs, Office 365 and DropBox.
Digital Publishing Suite is a set of turnkey hosted services and viewer technology that tightly integrates with Adobe Creative Suite 6 products and Adobe Creative Cloud.
Microsoft itself has launched Office 365, a cloud version of the Office suite, as well as hosted services like Exchange Online, Sharepoint Online and Lync Online.
Under the Steve Ballmer Steve Ballmer regime, Microsoft has been embracing hosted services for a few years now, but has been feeling mounting pressure from more prominent providers, such as Google , that target the SMB market and consumers.
But that will change with the Internet's next phase, when the main platform will switch from the PC to the Internet itself, and in which hosted services will emerge and the economy will move online, he said.
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Data embedded in resource maps for the area will be relayed to OMS-hosted model services to compute answers leading to recommendations for the resource problems the farmer has identified.
The tax would cover custom-designed software and services hosted on the Internet (aka The Cloud).
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Similarly, your navigation and location-based services are tied to cloud services hosted on servers around the globe.
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Increasingly, new software applications are sold not as packages to be installed on computers, but as services hosted on powerful servers that can be reached using a browser.
G2G Cloud Solutions is working in partnership with the National Association of Counties (NACo) to expand shared services and hosted applications on a national scale, offering technology solutions to other governments at a cost that is significantly lower than other options.
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The Citigroup report followed a financial services industry conference hosted by the bank last week.
The introduction of hosted servers, co-location and managed services meant that even those entities, without significant capital or technical resources, could gain benefits previously unavailable to the start-up.
In this case, the hundreds of thousands of attacked sites have something in common: They're all hosted on servers running either Microsoft 's Internet Information Services software or its SQL database software.
Your domain can't have a Web or e-mail presence unless it's hosted--though your registrar may provide some hosting services for a Web presence and e-mail account at a reasonable cost (or gratis).
If the larger company holds back, however, 3Tera may try integrating Amazon's services against the company's will. 3Tera's Bert Armijo says 3Tera is working on software that would connect Amazon's EC2 computing offering with 3Tera's Applogic services, allowing customers to use both Applogic applications hosted on 3Tera's clients' servers as well as Amazon's processing power.
If that many Web services are Amazon-sourced, clearly many more are hosted by other cloud service providers.
Roderick said sales in Blackboard's professional-services unit were hurt by brisk sales of the company's hosted solutions, which pushed some near-term revenue into future periods.
Roderick said sales in Blackboard's professional services unit were hurt by brisk sales of the company's hosted solutions, which pushed some near-term revenue into future periods.
As a company which has hosted Internet and media companies, Equinix is well situated to meet a rising demand in financial services news.
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The conference is being hosted by the International Blackcurrant Association and the James Hutton Institute, in association with GlaxoSmithKline and Mylnefield Research Services Ltd.
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