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Ballmer predicts rise of the datacentre

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 FT - 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.

“Amazon has one. Rumours are Google will have one. We’ve said we’re going to have one,” Mr Ballmer said.

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