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Analysts Explore the Latest Cloud Trends During Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference in Sydney, 20-21 May

COMPANY NEWS: Australian organisations are expected to spend more than A$23.3 billion on public cloud services in 2024, according to Gartner. Spending on IaaS will see the largest growth with an increase of 24.5%, followed by PaaS at 22.4%.

Lawrence Michael co-founded RackCorp, Australia’s own cloud services provider, 20 years ago - that’s older than the major hyperscalers! At a time where data sovereignty and bill shock are becoming increasingly prevalent issues in this space, going local and getting fixed bills, might just be the option you didn’t know you had. In this interview, Lawrence gives you a background on RackCorp and the industry... 

Learn more about RackCorp, here.

GUEST OPINION by Danny Wells, Tecala’s Network Team Leader: .Australian businesses are realising the value of taking a long-term view around the design and secureconfiguration of their corporate networks,

GUEST OPINION by Krupal Raval, Managing Director, xScale, Equinix: Hyperscalers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud have become a ubiquitous part of our lives. From searching the internet, to online shopping, to storing data in the cloud, few of our online transactions escape their reach. And like other businesses, hyperscalers must continually pursue new business opportunities while tracking the evolving needs of their customers and partners.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to open an infrastructure region in Thailand. which it says will consist of three availability ones, adding to the existing 87 availability ones across 27 geographic regions, including Australia.

New research from MIT Technology Review Insights and Infosys has examined how technology, regulations and talent have promoted the availability of cloud services across 76 countries, with Singapore, Australia and New Zealand emerging as APAC cloud leaders.

Global cloud service provider Nexion has added mission critical infrastructure monitoring to its solution portfolio, combining traditional IT monitoring and security to the physical edge by connecting the IT department to facilities management.

Global cloud communications provider CommsGroup has acquired Gold Coast headquartered cloud and managed services provider onGroup Holdings, trading as onPlatinum.

Rubrik to accelerate joint solutions and deliver cyber resiliency for customers with Microsoft equity investment

COMPANY NEWS: Rubrik, the Zero Trust Data Management company, today announced a strategic agreement with Microsoft that includes a Microsoft equity investment in Rubrik to drive go to market activities and co-engineering projects to deliver integrated Zero Trust data protection solutions built on Microsoft Azure. This work will address rising customer needs to protect against surging ransomware attacks, which are growing 150% annually. Together, Rubrik and Microsoft will provide Microsoft 365 and hybrid cloud data protection and integrated cloud services on Microsoft Azure.

GUEST OPINION by Jamie Atherton, country manager ANZ, Hyland:  As digital transformation continues to drive new solutions and services across the A/NZ region and organisations look for more flexible options, moving some, or all services to the cloud is becoming the deployment choice for many.

Announced at HPE Discover 2021, HPE’s new cloud services for healthcare, financial services, 5G and more are available now to “improve time to value, increase agility, and lower costs” for customers and partners across a range of industries, and enable HPE’s GreenLake to “deliver a cloud experience everywhere.”

Expenditure on cloud infrastructure services in the US grew by 29% in the first quarter of this year to US$18.6 billion (A$23.9 billion), the technology analyst firm Canalys says, adding that this was a record.

Cloud and managed service provider Nexon Asia Pacific has secured a multimillion-dollar multi-year agreement with privately-owned wealth management firm OrdMinnett to transition the company’s existing IT services to a completely new technology stack without downtime.

Global spending on cloud infrastructure services increased by 32% year-on-year to US$39.9 billion (A$52 billion) in the final quarter of 2020, the technology research firm Canalys says.

Global enterprise applications company IFS has been selected by Australian residential building industry supplier Stoddart Group to enable digitisation of job scheduling, automation of critical business processes and the delivery of service excellence.

Cloud services and hosting provider Hostopia Australia has secured a long-term deal with data centre operator Equinix to consolidate its five separate data centres across Sydney and Melbourne into Equinix’s SY5 and ME2 data centre facilities.

Hobart-based Internet service provider TasmaNet has acquired Queensland telco Internomic which trades under the brand names Vastnet in regional Queensland and Netmode in metro Brisbane and surrounds.

Jobs board and employment marketplace provider SEEK is using cloud services video provider Brightcove's video technology in a move designed to build a stronger brand and create a “more human connection” between job seekers and organisations.

Optus has signed a collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services aimed at better supporting digital transformation by delivering new end-to-end cloud services and migration support to Australian businesses.

ASX-listed IT hardware, software and cloud distributor, Dicker Data, has launched a new Microsoft Cloud business unit in a move the company says deepens its relationship with the global tech giant.