The robot was programmed to create a data-point cloud using a traditional sonar scan.
Sonar scans done at a safe distance of 10 metres create a rough image known as a data-point cloud.
To work around these problems, Dr Hover came up with the idea of using the data-point cloud not to spot mines, but as a guide to help the robot take a closer look at the hull.
And so we must step back and ask ourselves: Is the point of the cloud that we continue our victory of standardization that leads to choice, or is the cloud going to become the next proprietary platform?
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The point being that the cloud supplier can hire all the great engineers, gain economies of scale in hardware and bandwidth and so on.
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The entire point of the whole cloud computing enterprise is that you, the person wanting computer services, can get better services at lower cost by using the cloud.
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Next monitor elasticity, a major cloud selling point.
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In an article in IEEE Internet Computing, Cloud Computing: The Limits of Public Clouds for Business Applications, I point out several problems the public cloud vendors will have to solve to support business computing.
The PaaS market is quickly becoming a center point for the fast growing cloud sector.
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Three major trends sweeping through the enterprise the rapid rise of the consumerized end point , the adoption of cloud computing, and growing use of high definition video conferencing are transforming business and demanding a fundamental shift in how security is developed and deployed.
It then combines this real-time information with ephemeris data, mapping, cellular base station and Wi-Fi access point database information, and other cloud-based aiding information using the SiRFusion platform.
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It is vital that the solutions built on the private cloud do not become a point of lock in.
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The best part is the potential for distributing the intelligence anywhere via the cloud, right at the point of care.
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From that point forward, the company started to use cloud hosting with Amazon Web Services to support the website.
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So it should be no surprise that the Microsoft private cloud will be a core focus point for the show.
As cloud computing technology reaches a saturation point in North America many in the space are beginning to look at other markets to supplement growth prospects.
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In theory, that approach sounds great: buy point-solution apps from a variety of cloud-application vendors in the hopes of obtaining attractive pricing along with perhaps some best of breed technologies.
That diversified and flexible approach is at the core of the Oracle Cloud and will be a major point of discussion during our ongoing Oracle CloudWorld event series.
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And new software, plus the ability to vary the projected sizes and brightnesses of planets and moons, makes it possible to simulate the sky from anywhere in the solar system: to see earthrise from Mars, for example, or to watch Jupiter's moons rise and set from a vantage point just above the gas giant's cloud-tops.
Cloud is moving technology design to a point in which business users can quickly, on demand, map interconnected but discrete services to business processes as they are needed, then being able to quickly disassemble and redeploy those services as business needs change.
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The rise of cloud computing and social media was the tipping point in the relationship between customers and vendors.
Whereas Microsoft regularly discontinues support for its out-dated Windows versions, some durable goods like a washing machines may last maybe twenty years beyond the point where the manufacturer is still in business or any cloud services they had will still be running, he said.
Older middleware (the point between big computers and applications) is increasingly part of the cloud infrastructure, and end points like phones and laptops now choose, manage and load applications, with or without approval from corporate IT departments.
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Another possibility not mentioned in the report is that because cloud may be tightly baked into business processes, to the point that spending often occurs outside the IT department.
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Consider this scenario: A department with a pain point around visualizing and using large data sets could easily snap in a cloud provider through an easy-to-engage vendor who meets this specific need after a short departmental-led decision process.
An ingenious new laser called Waterlase adds to that the ability to cut through dry teeth and bone by casting a cloud of hot water vapor around the laser's cutting point, a couple of millimeters from the tooth.
Incremental quantitative advances in bandwidth, video frames per second, cloud based storage and processing and other technologies have reached a tipping point, with qualitatively new opportunities for learning now emerging.
The point is that we are living in a connected world, and we are tapping into cloud-based services more than ever before.
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The above point should be a factor but second should be what you are expecting as return from your cloud investment.
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