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May. 04, 2012
Gazing into the Cloud, From Storage to Servers
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Apple and Amazon want to store your music in ‘the cloud,’ while companies from Google to Microsoft to Zoho offer ways to wrangle your office documents there. But what exactly is the cloud, and is the time right to start using it? Technology experts Tony Bradley and Nicholas Carr look at the switch away from traditional desktop computing.
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Tony Bradley
Freelance Technology Writer
Columnist, PCWorld
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Nicholas Carr
Author, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (2010) and The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google (2008)
Boulder, Colorado
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