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A marketing piece hit the airwaves that AT&T is joining forces with IBM to store cloud data in IBM data centers from anywhere, including roaming, in their global cellular network push.

AT&T has announced that they’ll be pushing a global network that users will be able to utilize with cloud-stored data available from anywhere they may roam. IBM is part of this deal with the actual physical data-storage facilities – that data’s gotta be somewhere, after all. These two titans will split revenue from the deal, with Andy Geisse, head of AT&T’s unit for business clients noting simply that this collaboration will be “huge.”

What does this mean for you? I guess that you can sync mobile data to numerous IBM data centers.  I find the comments the funny part.

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