Australia’s digital economy has grown by 50% in just three years and is now the country’s biggest growth lever, according to a newly published study on salaries and hiring in the IT sector.

Australian organisations are more and more embracing technology as they transform themselves into digital businesses, with many now sharing information across the rapidly expanding digital ecosystem that they once held close to their chest.

Microsoft’s Azure ExpressRoute has been deployed in Equinix’s Melbourne data centre, the 16th of Equinix’s data centres around the world to directly connect with Azure.