Article: The long-range forecast for networks: Clouds and more clouds, across the horizon SERVICES.

CLOUDS are forming over the ICT landscape, but these have nothing to do with a downturn in the industry. Rather, cloud computing - or the delivery of ICT products and services over the internet - is the way of the future.

If anything, the trend will shower more revenue on the industry as this new method of accessing computing power enlarges the overall market. And if ICT analyst IDC is right, no breeze is about to get up and blow the cloud away - this will be the prevailing form of ICT service delivery for a couple of decades.

"This is about the IT industry's new model for the next 20 years," says IDC's Vernon Turner, the firm's Boston-based head of enterprise ...

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