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Article: Hey, you, get onto my cloud.(FINE PRINT)
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- Business North Carolina
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- December 1, 2008
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I'm not a trendsetter, a declaration that will come as no surprise to anyone who has seen the way 1 dress or noticed which music stations are programmed into my car radio. But I'm way ahead of the other kids on my block when it comes to cloud computing--a concept that deserves your attention. Geeks know all about it, of course, but for most folks it's still over the horizon.
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Here's how I embraced the future: A few weeks ago, 1 settled on a new tactic for backup storage of large files, which in my case were the first 10 chapters of my next novel. It's every writer's nightmare to lose a work in progress, and I'm obsessive in this ...