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Should you upload or ship big data to the cloud?

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The accepted wisdom does not always hold true.

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          cover image Communications of the ACM
          Communications of the ACM  Volume 59, Issue 7
          July 2016
          118 pages
          ISSN:0001-0782
          EISSN:1557-7317
          DOI:10.1145/2963119
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          • Moshe Y. Vardi
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