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For smaller and medium-sized enterprises, another option is to use the service provider's cloud computing facilities to house their data centres. This way, there is no need to set up on-site physical data centres, as the SMEs can virtually access the data centres in the cloud instantly.

Recent Gartner study

According to a recent Gartner study, the worldwide cloud services market is poised for strong growth through 2014, when worldwide cloud services revenue is projected to reach US$148.8 billion.

The adoption of cloud computing and cloud services among business enterprises has been increasingly rapidly over the past few years.