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CIO Columnist How Should We Measure Clouds?
By Alistair Croll
Too often, IT pros start at the bottom and work up. In the cloud, we need to look at the business model and set metrics from there.

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Security investigators recovered Box, Dropbox and SugarSync files and unique file IDs, via forensic dump of iPhone and Android smartphone memory.

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