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Businesses need to assure their cloud data is transferrable

Why you need vendors to adopt OVF before you move to the cloud; Why a two hour Gmail outage doesn't mean the cloud stinks for the enterprise
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Businesses need to assure their cloud data is transferrable

News that VMware's cloud efforts are supported only by VMware products is troubling for the security of cloud services. Read full story

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