In the 2014 comedy, "Sex Tape," the two main characters played by Jason Segel and Cameron Diaz lament about having inadvertently uploaded a particularly personal video to the cloud. Segel's character gives the line, "Nobody understands the cloud, it's a mystery!"

There are many misconceptions about cloud computing, and recent headline-grabbing items about data breaches at major businesses add to the concerns.

But studies show that cloud adoption is spreading across the business landscape. According to a recent study, Gartner predicts that by 2015 the market for cloud services could reach $180 billion, continuing the steadily increasing trend leading to about $235 billion spend by 2017.

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