By launching a big data cloud hosting platform alongside its marketplace, Infochimps is seeking to build on the importance of data locality.

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Cubby is built on LogMeIn's own cloud data sync and storage service - not hosted on a third party cloud data platform - and takes advantage of the same online-banking-level encryption capabilities used in LogMeIn's connectivity offerings (like LogMeIn Free and Pro, LogMeIn Rescue and join.me).

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Not every ISV shopping for a cloud data platform or Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) needs that scale, though.

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