This analysis is flawed. 1) most data in the cloud is going to be proprietary. How much is GE's internal factory data going to overlap with Starbucks' financia

This analysis is flawed. 1) most data in the cloud is going to be proprietary. How much is GE's internal factory data going to overlap with Starbucks' financials? 2) You would need global access at the byte level to truly dedupe systems. So the 50 biggest companies on S3 are giving some random company read access to all their data? And allowing them to compare it to all the data of their competitors? 3) And to do what? to save a few percent max in storage costs on S3? That's not going to dominate your cost structure by a longshot. Outside of a web crawl I doubt there is that much redundancy. The only one who can dedupe at scale and with trust would be Amazon themselves, and they would only do it if it weren't a huge headache to keep track of.