back to article Selling kit in the traditional way? Days might be numbered

Tea-leaf readers at IDC have slurped their latest cuppa and determined from the waste at the bottom that spending on the public cloud will run six times faster than traditional tech over a five-year period. The industry soothsayer is forecasting customer investment in the fluffy white stuff to reach $56bn this year, and grow …

  1. frank ly

    Be careful

    " ... said Frank Gens, senior veep and chief tea-leaf at the analyst house."

    'tea-leaf' is rhyming slang for 'thief'. Try 'chief tea-leaf analyst' in da house.

  2. hoola Silver badge

    Invest?

    Where does this rubbish come from? No one, absolutely no one "invests" in the cloud unless you are a provider. This research(?) is coming from the consumer and as such it is impossible to invest in something that is nothing more than a contract and annual revenue stream. One can invest in a datacentre and hardware, one cannot invest in somthing you never own and is a recurrent cost.

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