Being a young industry, there are few tools, procedures or standard data formats or service interfaces in place to guarantee data, computer application and service portability.

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Now that SMS is taking off, a new data-service wireless-application protocol, or WAP, is taking hold for digital cellular networks.

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In hybrid form, a private cloud can include data stored on premise or off, with a private Platform-as-a-Service middleware layer managing application data and enforcing data security.

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