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Highly scalable, simple, cheap, distributed storage for the cloud By Doug Dineley Apr 5, 2013 3 mins Cloud Computing IaaS Technology Industry Phablets don’t get no respect A report this week dismissed the phablet as a fad unworthy of developer support. 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