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[CRM Outsiders] A year or two ago, the concept of hybrid, on-demand and on-site deployments, along with private clouds, was irrelevant. That’s changed in the past 12 months thanks largely to the kickback from customers, as businesses have discovered that letting your vendor host everything doesn’t provide an answer to anything and everything.

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