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Sceptics have denounced cloud computing as the next ‘dot.com bubble burst’, but since the emergence of Amazon Web Services, Google Apps, Microsoft Office Live and IBM Blue Cloud, cloud computing appears to have become a significant and sustainable force in the ICT Sector.
The uptake of cloud computing services by major corporations such as Coca Cola Enterprises, Nokia and The New York Times has given credence to the permanency of cloud computing (Arnold, E., 2008; Lyons, 2008a; Fitzgerald, 2008).
Cloud computing is reaching into the world hubs of software development. IBM is developing its latest cloud computing facility in the software development region of Wuxi, China. For a subscription fee, software developers will be able to use IBM’s open access source code to collaborate, design, develop and test their software (IBM, 2008b).