Some people upload tons of photos and seem to use Facebook as their default photo storage location.

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Perhaps the single most important factor in choosing a cloud storage provider is location.

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Both native apps and Web apps will be powered by increasingly sophisticated and pervasive cloud resources: storage, computation, collaboration, transactions, location services, content distribution, and remote 3D video rendering.

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Companies should also ensure that provider technologies can seamlessly move work to another delivery location and insist upon offsite, secure storage of critical company data.

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Location-aware smartphones and inexpensive digital memory storage in the "cloud" of the Internet make the transition possible and inevitable.

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However the location of digital content is shifted with over 60% of storage capacity expected in cloud applications by 2020-versus about 25% today.

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Putting the bulk of computing and storage in the data center has other perks for IT management: It creates a centralized location for software upgrades across an entire organization and puts a layer of network security between users and sensitive data--a lost thin client laptop, for instance, doesn't contain private information, and so doesn't pose a threat of causing a data breach.

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The toys, notes and other materials were boxed and labeled under the supervision of the Aurora History Museum for storage, the city said, and they'll remain available to family members to view at a secure location.

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