OK, so what about cloud lockers from companies like Amazon.com (Nasdaq:AMZN)?

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What Cloud Atlas does exceptionally well from the beginning is to give the viewer the feeling that something profound is unfolding before them.

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Its proprietary cloud is what differentiates it from the competition.

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We predicted that as the understanding about what makes a cloud service different from traditional IT proliferated (and it has) that we would see a commiserate decline in cloudwashing.

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The above point should be a factor but second should be what you are expecting as return from your cloud investment.

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With regulators at a loss and Boeing failing to detail what their internal investigation has shown, a cloud hangs over the stock, which remains essentially flat from a year ago.

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That would be pretty decent for the specs we know so far: 4.5-inch qHD IPS gapless display, MSM8225Q quad-core chip, dual-SIM support, an eight-megapixel main camera (which produced reasonably good photos, from what we could see), a two-megapixel front-facing camera, and Baidu cloud service integration with 15GB of storage for life, plus another 15GB free for one year.

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