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APPENDIX

CLOUD COMPUTING’S

PORTABILITY

GOTCHA: TRANSFER

FEES CAN LEAD TO

LOCK-IN AS DATA

STORES GROW

There were a couple of “aha” moments for me at the Interop
conference’s Enterprise Cloud Summit this month. The first
was that some companies are already storing hundreds of tera-
bytes of data in the cloud. The second was that it can be a slow

and expensive process to move that data from one service
provider to another.

By John Foley, InformationWeek, November 28, 2009, 12:00 a.m. (from the November
30, 2009, issue).

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