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If you think about it, cloud services add another layer in the supply chain. For example, just think about a UK company buying cloud services from a US company who buys hard drives from a company in Thailand. Now, you’re affected not only by the floods in Thailand in 2012, but you’re affected by natural disasters in the US as well. Even if you’re not using US data centers, they’re part of the control plane for the data centers in Europe.


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