The cloud comes of age, sweeping away IT as we've known it

24 July 2016 - 02:00

By Arthur Goldstuck

This week's announcement by Microsoft that its commercial cloud services generated $12.1-billion (about R173-billion) in the last quarter marked the end of the beginning of the cloud computing revolution.

It comes off the back of Amazon declaring $10-billion in revenue from its cloud division, Amazon Web Services, for the first quarter of this year.

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