Tassie council moving entirely to the cloud
17 April, 2015 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingTasmania's Glenorchy City Council has commenced a migration to the cloud, and the state's Liberal Government has unveiled a plan to expand the Tasmanian ICT workforce.
Tasmanian govt makes progress with cloud project
13 April, 2015 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingThe Tasmanian government has released a discussion paper covering scoping and implementation for Tasmanian Cloud, a project to move whole-of-government data to a secure, on-island cloud.
Oracle to add 1000 staff to APAC sales team
26 March, 2015 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingOracle plans to hire 1000 sales professionals in APAC countries including Australia as it seeks to capitalise on the region's growing cloud momentum.
It's time for a serious talk with the CFO
18 March, 2015 by Kevin Noonan, Research Director, Ovum*The time has come to look beyond asset ownership as the best way of delivering efficient and effective IT solutions, and focus more on financial management's Holy Grail of outcome-based pricing, argues Ovum's Kevin Noonan.
Govt picks nine more providers for cloud panel
24 February, 2015 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingiiNet, Dimension Data Australia and seven more providers have been added to the whole-of-government cloud services procurement panel.
Cloud services driving MYOB sales
09 February, 2015 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingCloud-based MYOB services now account for 67% of the company's new customer registrations across Australia and New Zealand, according to CEO Tim Reed.
AWS unveils cloud email service
02 February, 2015 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingAmazon Web Services has announced plans to launch a managed business email service over the AWS cloud during the next quarter.
4 in 5 large Aussie companies embrace the cloud
12 January, 2015 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingCloud adoption has reached a tipping point, with four in five large Australian companies using or planning to use the technology for mission-critical applications, a survey suggests.
IBM expands cloud centres around the world
22 December, 2014IBM has announced an expansion of its global cloud computing network to 40 cloud centres with 12 new locations to help enterprise clients move to hybrid cloud computing.
Microsoft to host Office 365, CRM suite in Aust
11 December, 2014 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingMicrosoft will start hosting its cloud-based Office 365 and Dynamics CRM suites in Australian data centres from March next year and has added more local partners to its network of providers.
Dimension Data to build government-managed cloud
26 November, 2014 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingDimension Data has established the Canberra Managed Cloud Platform, purpose built for Australian Government agencies, and the Department of Finance has signed on to use it.
Fire & Rescue NSW to deploy on IBM Cloud
20 November, 2014 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingThe NSW Government agency FRNSW has tapped IBM to deploy an as-a-service based IT delivery platform over IBM Cloud infrastructure on the dedicated NSW Government Data Centre.
Australia.gov.au migrated to govCMS
12 November, 2014 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingThe first Australian government website has been onboarded onto the dedicated govCMS platform, a Drupal-based content management system.
Telstra, VMware to bring vCloud Air to Australia
06 November, 2014 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingTelstra will host VMware's vCloud Air platform on its Australian data centres in a bid to make it easier for companies to adopt dedicated and hybrid cloud services.
Google ups the ante with cloud price cuts
05 November, 2014 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingResponding to recent price cuts from rivals AWS and Microsoft, Google has announced sweeping price reductions to its own cloud services while also introducing new features and enhancements.
