In the 2014 comedy, “Sex Tape,” the two main characters played by Jason Segel and Cameron Diaz lament about having inadvertently uploaded a 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 growing. Gartner predicts that by 2015, the market for cloud services could reach $180 billion, continuing the steadily increasing trend leading to about $235 billion by 2017.

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