British born Indian, Sachin Duggal, 27, a World Economic Forum 2009 technology pioneer, says that a major part of the battle he and his cloud computing company Nivio fight is in fact ‘unclouding’ the concept itself. “Part of our challenge is educational. We are trying to explain what we are about.”
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“The processing, storage and applications that today happen in your PC will relocate to a data centre. So, if you are a full cloud user, someone could take your PC away and give you another one and you would experience no disruption at all. You wouldn’t have to restore from backup or anything. Your life would be fully online,”