Breaking News English

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

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