E-mail proved to be the killer app, the use of network computing that everyone had to have.
Network Computing gave the KR1 a try, and found it to be an easy, reliable way to create a quick-and-dirty ad-hoc network.
Even electronic engineers who pioneered network computing in Japan use it badly.
But PC prices dropped, and the economics of network computing collapsed.
Yet despite their failures, the concept of network computing resonated and validated the Windows terminal, which has the advantages of a network computer and runs Windows applications.
Canvas then connects to Amazon Web Services, a cloud-computing network operated by Amazon.com Inc.
Do you scale-up to a high performance computing system or scale-out by just adding nodes to a distributed computing network?
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These days, it costs just about the same to buy cloud time on, say, Amazon as it does to purchase your own in-house computing network.
The solution: For a few billion dollars, Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) could get into the phone business itself, buying the spectrum it needs to offer not just voice service for all those iPhone users, but to build the broadband wireless links it needs to offer next generation, network-centric computing, communications and entertainment.
By moving computing functions to the network, OnLive is defining the next generation of cloud computing.
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Stern said the adapter will be useful in virtualization, cloud computing and network storage.
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Google and Microsoft are both pushing the White House to adopt a kind of network configuration called cloud computing.
The segment offers operating systems, network services and workgroup computing software solutions based on the Linux open source operating system.
This shows that in spite of the challenges, IT departments are realizing benefits through implementing cloud computing and network virtualization.
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Instead of talking about cars, these geeks were showing off their aptitude in technology, talking about things like cloud computing, network security and advanced communications systems.
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These include services such as hosting, cloud-computing and network integration.
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Potential participants include users and producers of systems and components for telecommunications carriers, Internet exchanges, financial markets, data centers, multiple system operators (MSOs) networking systems, high-performance computing, network storage and servers and other individuals interested in future IEEE 802.3 Ethernet wireline standards.
The new UNESCO UNITWIN Network in Humanitarian Engineering and Computing aims to place cultural diversity and understanding at the heart of engineering and computing education.
Concurrently, greater availability of wireless broadband Internet, shared network printers, and mobile computing has made it easier for groups to share printers, putting additional downward pressure on demand for printers.
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At this point in time, businesses in most industries need to face the fact that expanding the network infrastructure responsible for hosting computing processes is critical in a competitive marketplace.
Where Bert Danner falters in his analysis is in assuming that the mobile platform battle will play out like desktop computing, where network effects yielded near monopoly-level dominance to Microsoft.
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Topics ranged from new approaches to network and infrastructure sharing, cloud computing, and operations management.
While DAS connectivity is very important for internal hardware design, connecting storage and computing systems over a network continues to grow in importance to enable movement of these vast data streams.
Erlang, developed by telecommunications company Ericsson for massively parallel computing in a phone network, then later released as an open source language, both influenced Scala and is enjoying some rebirth in the world of global data centers.
Hardware advances are as critical as the overall network to the overall success of cloud computing.
Secure Computing is a niche player in network security that offers firewall software and intrusion prevention software.
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Watson, harnesses a massively parallel network of two to three thousand Power 7 computing cores in six refrigerator-sized containers.
This is enormously faster than conventional DRAM memory and is targeted initially for network switching application as well as high performance computing.
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Sun's N1 (it stands for "Network One") is largely aimed at network management, where it figures 80% of computing budgets go.
Jini, the work of Bill Joy, a Sun co-founder and one of the fathers of Java, promises to allow computing appliances to connect instantly into a universal network.
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