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Category:Cloud applications. Software as a service. According to a Gartner Group estimate, SaaS sales in 2010 reached $10 billion, and were projected to increase to $12.1bn in 2011, up 20.7% from 2010.[6] Gartner Group estimates that SaaS revenue will be more than double its 2010 numbers by 2015 and reach a projected $21.3bn.

Software as a service

Customer relationship management (CRM) continues to be the largest market for SaaS. SaaS revenue within the CRM market was forecast to reach $3.8bn in 2011, up from $3.2bn in 2010.[7] Netbook. HP 2133 Mini-Note PC netbook (front view, compared to a pencil) A Hewlett-Packard Mini 1000 netbook computer, a type of netbook computer Netbooks are a category of small, lightweight, legacy-free, and inexpensive computers.

Netbook

At their inception in late 2007[1] as smaller notebooks optimized for low weight and low cost[2] — netbooks omitted certain features (e.g., the optical drive), featured smaller screens and keyboards, and offered reduced computing power when compared to a full-sized laptop. Over the course of their evolution, netbooks have ranged in size from below 5" screen diagonal to 12". A typical weight is 1 kg (2.2 pounds). In the short period since their appearance, netbooks grew in size and features, and converged with smaller, lighter laptops and subnotebooks.

History[edit] OS. All your cloud files from a single login. The RoboEarth Cloud Engine. BitTorrent. The Future of Data Storage. Beyond Cloud Computing, Global Computers and World Operating Systems. *TFLOPS is the actual teraflops from the software cores, not the peak values from CPU/GPU/PS3 specs.

Beyond Cloud Computing, Global Computers and World Operating Systems

Please see our main FAQ, FLOPS FAQ, PS3 FAQ, NVIDIA GPU FAQ, or ATI GPU FAQ for more details on specific platforms. Active means those that have returned within 10-50 days depending upon the type of processor. Folding@home the largest distributed computing effort has 8.3 petaflops of computing power in active utilization. This effort represents one of the larger current "World Computers" -400,000 active for folding@home, 30,000 GPGPUs provide 68% of the processing and 36,600 Playstations 3 represent 25% of the rest of the processing power.

The number of machines with GPGPU co-processing or that will have cell processors will increase as a percentage. AMD Fusion which combines standard processors with a GPGPU is currently expected inthe second half of 2011. There are 100 million GPGPU from NVidia. Distributed Computing. The internet of things will require new thinking on data centers. Towards a Distributed Internet. In preparation for the Contact conference that I am helping to organize this October in NYC, I’ve been in discussion with many different communities about the types of initiatives they would like to bring to the table.

Towards a Distributed Internet

The purpose of the event is to ‘realize the true potential of social media,’ and determine what infrastructures need to be in place to enable peer-to-peer commerce, culture, and governance. Forget 'the Cloud,' Computing's Future Is in 'the Fog'

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What comes after the cloud? How about the fog? (Credit: Rick Hyman/stock image) Startup Symform thinks it can provide better disaster resilience than even data centers hundreds of miles apart.

What comes after the cloud? How about the fog?

And, says Bassam Tabbara, Symform cofounder and Chief Technical Officer, it can do that in a way that’s extremely cheap — and in some cases free — to its customers, Tekla Perry writes on IEEE Spectrum. Your Cloud, Your Data, Your Way! Personal Clouds. Jolicloud. The web performance & security company. Free Online Backup Service – Start with 10 GB Free Cloud Storage – Symform. CloudFlare Watch. Webconverger - the opensource Web Kiosk. Webconverger.

Webconverger is typically used in Web kiosk and digital signage deployments.

Webconverger

It runs the Firefox web browser with a customised window manager dwm and a Firefox add-on also named Webconverger that locks the browser to a simple kiosk operation mode. The browser is locked down with most menus, toolbars, key commands and most right button menus disabled. Webconverger contains Adobe Flash support and PDF viewing by default. Both wired and wireless networks are supported via DHCP. See also[edit] Kiosk software References[edit] External links[edit] EyeOS solutions for a new world.

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Cloud Computing. Outsourcing. The Top 10 Data Center Images of 2012. The data center is ready for its close up.

The Top 10 Data Center Images of 2012

In 2012 we saw a welcome focus on the hidden beauty of data center technology, highlighted by several developments in a single week. On Oct. 10, Prentice Hall published The Art of the Data Center, a collection of photos and interviews of some of the world’s most unique IT facilities, curated by Cisco IT architect Douglas Alger. A week later, Google gave the world a look inside its data centers, publishing gorgeous photos taken by a leading architecture photographer. Data Center Knowledge has been a pioneer in taking readers inside these amazing facilities with photo tours, as we’ve spent the last seven years bugging data center operators to share images with our readers. Cloud Security : Tech Center.