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Is distributed cloud the next cloud model or rather a concept? By Aditya Abeysinghe   The Cloud in “Cloud Computing” refers to the abstraction of the location in which data storage and processing is performed. The customer rarely knows where their data are and what security measures are taken to protect their data. Due to this nature, many companies use on premise data centers or have hybrid clouds, i.e. a combination of public and private clouds to combine the benefits of both architectures. However, a new trend in cloud computing has emerged where the cloud service providers themselves distribute the cloud to known locations and provide services. This trend is called distributed clouds and is now widely being used by many customers as a new method of hosting their data. With distributed cloud the data can be processed closer to the customer in separate smaller clouds, compared to a large ...