CloudCiti analyst says Amazon should split to avoid anti-trust scrutiny
Written by Sam Varghese
An analyst from Citi Research has suggested that it might be a good idea for Amazon to split, separating its e-commerce business from its cloud… 
Microsoft's provision of cloud services in Germany through T-Systems, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, that will act as a data trustee, appears to be over,… Australian cloud services spending set to hit $5b+ in 2019
Written by Peter Dinham
Australian organisations are forecast to spend A$5.6 billion on public cloud services in 2019, a 20.3% increase from this year, and higher than the global… 
VMware Cloud on AWS is now available in Amazon Web Services' Asia Pacific (Sydney) region. 
Germany-based open source provider SUSE has collaborated with Microsoft to create a Linux kernel that is optimised for the Azure cloud platform. Sailpoint, Rackspace partner on identity governance cloud program
Written by Peter Dinham
Identity governance provider SailPoint has announced a strategic partnership with managed cloud provider Rackspace to enable organisations to host their identity governance programs in the… 
Cloud communications provider Twilio has announced an API for WhatsApp, extending the platform's messaging capabilities to include the popular service. Oracle announces general availability of Blockchain Cloud Service
Written by Sam Varghese
Database giant Oracle Corporation has announced the general availability of its Blockchain Cloud Service, which has already been taken up by a number of organisations. 
Investments in cloud technology and resources are on the rise as enterprises increasingly focus on migrating mission-critical applications to the cloud, according to a new… 
Snowflake Computing's data warehouse as a service — originally offered on AWS — is now being previewed on Microsoft Azure. 
