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If you’re paying attention and/or using a smart phone every day (and perhaps it’s safer to assume the latter) the ‘cloud’ is no longer a buzzword. The cloud has become grounded in our daily reality. How’s that for a paradox and a visual?

But at a minimum, it has become more like a punch line in every consumer’s day—without even thinking about it. Projections show that 15 billion devices and 3 billion people will be connected to the Internet by 2015. We all use the cloud daily for a large number of tasks, both personal and professional. Today, accessing information on the Internet is like breathing for most of us. Although I would likely never be accused of being a social media power user, I do have multiple email accounts in the cloud, use online storage, shop in the cloud, and perform a number of business functions that now reside in the cloud. There’s no ambiguity in that—the cloud is here, happening, and the silver lining is making its presence known to us all, ready or not.

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