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I do not advocate that you use a free public cloud system for your business data (and I recommend being careful with your private data on those systems). Cloud services are about economies of scale. The central piece of infrastructure in 19th-century manufacturing was power. Every factory had their own mechanical power generator, be it a steam engine or a water mill. Only with the invention of electricity did it become possible to centralize power generation and distribute it to wherever it was needed.
“Look at a sky in which there are one or more clouds and you will see something no other person has ever seen, since the dawn of time.”
—J.D. Boatwood
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Kull, H. (2015). Going Cloud. In: Mass Customization. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1007-9_9
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