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Cloud Services Market Expanding to $109 Billion in 2012

Posted 09/20/2012 at 7:15am | by Paul Lilly

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Cloud It wasn't too terribly long ago that "cloud computing" was a loosey-goosey marketing term being thrown around by anyone and everyone in the software space. And now? There's been a marked shift towards cloud-based services, which is a market that research firm Gartner predicts will grow 19.6 percent to $109 billion by the end of 2012.

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