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The headline is form the Financial Times yesterday - this topic is going to be a big one this year. Steve Ballmer predicted that "a new super-group of tech companies would dominate the cloud computing market, each of them managing what amounts to a giant centralised computer made up of a number of big datacentres"

 

"Amazon has one. Rumours are Google will have one. We've said we're going to have one," Mr Ballmer said.

Mark my words. This year we'll see numerous articles about the size of these datacenters, their capacity, the fact you can see them from space, their eco-impact, their CSR impact.....this stuff will generate miles of coverage and given the players mentioned above, you can imagine how it'll be positioned as the next arms race.

Tom Raftery and Peter Ferry are good commentators on this topic so I'm looking forward to their insights.