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  Microsoft predicts rise of the datacentre
Time: 00:17 EST/05:17 GMT | News Source: Financial Times | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum

A handful of US companies is set to dominate the emerging market for “cloud computing”, which will assume a central role in the information technology world, according to Steve Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft.

His prediction – in an interview with the Financial Times – points to a future in which the distinctions between software, hardware and internet companies fall away and a small number of big technology companies, each running a collection of vast datacentres, controls the IT landscape.

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