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Funny how we used to have mainframe computers which ran the software and stored your information and all the end user had was a terminal. Now with a Chromebook we're back to pretty much the same thing, albeit with a graphical "terminal" and some processing power at your end. But the concept is still very similar. Mainframes disappeared because people (companies) wanted control over their information instead of relying on a third party to store it.
Now they want us to go back to this same model. Personally, I think cloud is great for consumers as a place to store some documents (mainly personal stuff like photos/videos/music), but I don't know why a company would want to. You can get your own server for your office and still have your workers access it exactly the same as if they accessed the "cloud", except that the "cloud" belongs to you and resides at your company. And you can customize your server for your specific needs, something not so easily done with the "cloud".
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