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

Wikipedia says: "Cloud computing is a phrase to describe a variety of computing concepts that involves a large number of computers through a real-time communication network such as the Internet." In reality, "the cloud" is a metaphor for the Internet. Clever marketing has the concept of the cloud to create more sellable services. Users of cloud services their data and software on a server (a huge computer) of the company the cloud service. There is no need to anything or information on a home or work computer. Wikipedia several deterrents to the widespread adoption of cloud computing, security, reliability and issues privacy.