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Editor's note: This is one of the last columns longtime Storage magazine and TechTarget contributor Jon Toigo wrote for us before he died of natural causes in February at age 59. Please read "Remembering Jon Toigo" -- near the end of this column -- for more about his life and career. Storage was one of the original service offerings of clouds -- focused initially on general-purpose content distribution, then on file sharing or mobile-device-capacity expansion. Today, storage-related service offerings run the gamut from backup and archive data repositories to more complex storage solutions that support cloud-based applications and virtual machines. Internal private clouds -- infrastructure built by private companies in their own on-premises data centers that takes advantage of many of the same technologies used by public cloud providers -- developed concurrently with public cloud-based outsourcing services. Recent surveys reported these on-premises private clouds support as much as 75% of the application workload hosted in ...