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Cloud Computing Could Be a $1BN Business for Dell "In a Couple of Years"

According to Founder & CEO Michael Dell

By: Cloud News Desk

Jul. 31, 2008 11:15 PM

Already generating "hundreds of millions" of dollars in sales for Dell, cloud computing could be a $1 billion business "in a couple [of] years" according to a BusinessWeek interview with Michael Dell, founder and CEO of the company.

Speaking with BW's Aaron Ricadela, Dell explained that Dell plans to customize large orders of thousands of servers for customers like Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon.com and Yahoo.

Dell's stock has risen 23% over the past three months. On a rising cloud, all ships rise...

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