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Acknowledgements
The major contributors to this whitepaper are: Mike Edwards (IBM), Preetam Gawade (nCryptedCloud),
John Leung (Intel), Bill McDonald (WRM Consulting), Karolyn Schalk (IBM), Karl Scott (Satori Consulting),
Bill Van Order (Lockheed Martin) and Steven Woodward (Cloud Perspectives).
