But despite the rapid acceptance of cloud computing, there are still widespread concerns about how safe your data is in the cloud.

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Everything is encrypted locally and backed up in the cloud, so user data is always safe and secure.

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Storing data in the cloud is becoming hugely popular not just for consumers who use it to keep photographs and other personal data safe but for businesses which are increasingly using cloud services to offer back-end processing power.

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Armed with that knowledge, we can start to build a cloud security approach from a data-centric standpoint, designing it to keep our critical data safe and building clouds that are even more secure than we once thought possible.

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Sonar scans done at a safe distance of 10 metres create a rough image known as a data-point cloud.

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