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International Business Machines (IBM) to invest $1.2 billion to expand its cloud . The computing and technology giant wants to bolster its in the next generation of cloud and other services. The project includes building 15 state-of-the- data centres across the world. IBM is having to adapt to move from a predominantly hardware-based company into one providing services. It has experienced declining revenues for the past quarters and urgently needs to reverse this . An IBM spokesman told reporters: "This is fundamental because this allows us global ." He added: "We are continuing to invest in where we think the growth areas are going to be."

Wikipedia says: "Cloud computing is a used to describe a variety of computing that involve a large number of computers connected through a real-time communication such as the Internet." In reality, "the cloud" is a for the Internet. Clever marketing has created the of the cloud to create more sellable services. Users of cloud services keep their and software on a server (a huge computer) of the company offering the cloud service. There is need to download anything or store information on a home or work computer. Wikipedia outlines several to the widespread of cloud computing, including security, reliability and surrounding privacy.

 


 

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