For the past several years, cloud computing has been like a carrot dangling just beyond reach - promising to dramatically improve the transport and management of large amounts of data while streamlining workflows and increasing collaboration but not quite delivering. The virtually unlimited, on-demand increases in transfer, storage, compute and bandwidth that the cloud could enable, plus the clear cost benefits, are undeniable. But the inherent challenges of leveraging the cloud have proven prohibitive.
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