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IDC says cloud services are a critical component of the WW IT industry's future-- and will drive its growth for the next 25 years.
The analyst predicts WW public IT cloud service spending will reach a total of $72.9Bn in 2015, with a CAGR of 27.6% (from 2010's total of $21.5Bn)-- spending that's x4 the rate of the WW IT market as a whole.
The cloud will form what IDC calls the industry's 3rd major platform (together with mobile devices, wireless networks, big data analytics and social networking) which will lead to an "entirely new variety of intelligent Read more...