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Facebook is offering its users another glimpse under the hood of its back-end operations -- this time with a focus on how all of its data is backed up. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company described ...

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As we migrate applications and/or data to public cloud storage, a big question needs to be asked: how is my data protected? Cloud providers are singularly focused on making the infrastructure that ...

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