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GUEST INTERVIEW: Hyperscalers is the Australian next-gen open-OEM solving IT's complexity, eliminating proprietary hardware and software vendor lock-ins, delivering better technologies at competitive pricing. Doing it all from Canberra to Australian and global customers since 2014, in what is an inspiring and true success story its customers love.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Hyperscalers is the Australian next-gen open-OEM solving IT's complexity, eliminating proprietary hardware and software vendor lock-ins, delivering better technologies at competitive pricing. Doing it all from Canberra to Australian and global customers since 2014, in what is an inspiring and true success story its customers love.

GUEST OPINION: Why are CIOs and IT organisations prioritising investment in cloud infrastructure? The answer is simple: to better support virtual workforces, supply chains and partners.

Australia’s Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) market continues to grow strongly with cloud driving digital transformation and new product development, according to new research from Australian emerging technology analyst firm, Telsyte.

Hobart-based Internet service provider TasmaNet has launched its eastern seaboard cloud node, based in Sydney, delivering “enhanced access” to its core private cloud platform.

GUEST OPINION: For many organisations, creating an effective data protection strategy to support the adoption of remote work and cloud infrastructure is becoming increasingly urgent.

Global end-use of public cloud services is expected to boom this year, with technology analyst firm Gartner predicting a 23.1% rise in spending and reach US$332.3 billion (A$428.7 billion) from US$270 billion in 2020.

Spending on public cloud services by end-users has been forecast to increase to US$4.1 billion (A$5.58 billion) next year, the technology analyst firm Gartner says, adding that this would be an increase of 29.4% year-on-year.

GUEST OPINION: Prior to the advent of cloud computing, IT was simply a department in an organisation where users would go to get their phone issues resolved or their computers fixed. Today, IT plays a far more strategic role in the enterprise and is a key enabler of business innovation and growth.

GUEST OPINION: Prior to the advent of cloud computing, IT was simply a department in an organisation where users would go to get their phone issues resolved or their computers fixed. Today, IT plays a far more strategic role in the enterprise and is a key enabler of business innovation and growth.

Global cloud revenues in 2019 brought in US$233.4 billion (A$324.7 billion), with the top five public cloud providers — Microsoft, AWS, Salesforce, Google and Oracle — accounting for more than a third of this figure, the technology analyst firm IDC says.

Multinational companies are dominating the Australian hyperscale cloud market, according to research from emerging technology analyst firm Telsyte.

GUEST CONTRIBUTION* by Adam Fuoss, vice president technical sales Silver Peak: As Australian businesses adapt to the changing dynamics of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), the unprecedented shift toward remote working is creating a mass exodus of employees out of branch offices into their homes. Employees are quickly having to adapt to communicating and collaborating in new ways to maintain business productivity.

GUEST CONTRIBUTION* by Adam Fuoss, vice president technical sales Silver Peak: As Australian businesses adapt to the changing dynamics of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), the unprecedented shift toward remote working is creating a mass exodus of employees out of branch offices into their homes. Employees are quickly having to adapt to communicating and collaborating in new ways to maintain business productivity.

Global cosmetics giant L’Oreal is using a solution from cloud data specialist Talend to power its research & innovation department's data lake in a private IaaS environment on Microsoft Azure.

Amazon is once again the number one vendor in the global infrastructure as a service market, with the worldwide IaaS market growing 31.3% in 2018 to total US$32.4 billion, up from US$24.7 billion in 2017.

"Organisations are still struggling with the rapid move to the cloud," McAfee MVision Cloud Asia Pacific regional director Joel Camissar told iTWire, but taking a data-centric view to protecting information makes it easier.

McAfee's new MVision family of security products comes with a promise to give organisations more time to manage their security by reducing the amount of time needed to manage security controls.

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 growth rate of 17.3%, according to a new report.

The majority of authentication methods used by organisations "aren’t up to scratch compared to those offered by consumer websites such as Facebook and Amazon," according to the latest research from Gemalto.