The huge size of the North American cloud market seems like good news, indeed, for companies like Amazon Web Services and Rackspace.

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As cloud computing technology reaches a saturation point in North America many in the space are beginning to look at other markets to supplement growth prospects.

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Gartner says North America is the largest region in the cloud services market, accounting for 59 percent of all new spending on cloud services from 2013 through 2016.

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Madrid's large airport, so far unaffected by the ash cloud, could handle extra flights with passengers then continuing their journey north by land.

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According to the latest Forrsights Surveys nearly half of all enterprises in North America and Europe will set aside budget for private cloud investments in 2013 and nearly as many software development managers are planning to deploy applications to the cloud.

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Footage showed a funnel cloud tearing through the Georgian town of Adairsville, 60 miles (97km) north-west of Atlanta.

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Based in Maiden, North Carolina, the data center will help Apple compete with increasingly sophisticated cloud-based services being developed by Microsoft, Google, and Amazon.com.

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