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Tonight, Matthew, I’m going to bore my customers and colleagues with unnecessary stuff and nonsense, says Mark Samuels 17 Jul 2008

If the analysts are right, the IT industry is set for an evolutionary step. Mark Samuels discovers cloud computing’s potential benefits 10 Jul 2008

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