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Cloud computing specialist Nutanix has appointed 20 year ICT industry sales veteran Dominick Delfino as chief revenue officer.

AI-driven cloud platform provider Sisense has appointed Paul Scholey as vice president of international sales and Kristina Agassi as general counsel.

In the midst of its Discover 2021 conference, HPE said it is “extending hybrid cloud leadership with the HPE GreenLake edge to cloud platform to deliver the industry’s most comprehensive on-premises offerings for scalable and secure cloud services that drive greater agility, simplicity and productivity at lower cost.”

GUEST OPINION by Peter O’Connor, Vice President Asia Pacific, Snowflake: With an increasing proportion of daily activity shifting into the digital realm, Australian businesses are finding themselves awash with data.

Australia’s largest telco Telstra and French defence giant Thales are working with software behemoth Microsoft and open-source hardware and software company Arduino to pave the way for scalable security for connected IoT devices, by implementing a solution designed to enable trusted and secure end-to-end communication between device and cloud.

Australian telco and broadcaster OVO is using a cloud-based platform from global business optimisation platform provider Domo to integrate data from two different lines of business in a move it says is designed to help grow the business to 70,000 mobile customers and two million audience members across 150 countries.

Retail giant Coles has signed a deal with Microsoft in a move to accelerate its digital transformation and improve productivity across the business.

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For the third consecutive year, Anaplan is a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Sales Performance Management. Anaplan believes this recognition is a reflection of the company’s cloud platform, product strategy, and business model.

IBM’s acquisition of Red Hat for US$34 billion is a win-win for both companies, according to analyst firm GlobalData, and will give IBM a solid bridge between its existing on-premise hardware and its global cloud platform.

Managed cloud provider Rackspace has become Google Cloud’s first managed services partner in Australia and New Zealand, offering Google Cloud platform customers in ANZ added cloud architecture support, onboarding, data migration expertise, as well as ongoing operational support to help ensure optimal cloud application performance.

Global business process management platform Appian has done a deal to roll out new enterprise applications on its cloud platform at the Queensland University of Technology.

Cloud computing has tremendously changed the way organisations look at their digital infrastructure. Whether it’s rolling out new services or migrating whole workloads, the technology underpinning cloud computing continues to evolve to support today’s demands. Unlocking cloud capabilities that best suits your organisation depends on the technology, business objectives and most importantly skills.

Perth-based national IT services provider Empired has been selected by Microsoft as the launch partner for its cloud computing platform, Azure, for its Central Regions data centres in Canberra.

Global education software and services provider Tribal Group is collaborating with Microsoft to enable the organisation expand the number of educational institutions and students who can access its Student Information Systems.

By Nicki Pereira, Chief Technology Officer Zettagrid

Migrating to the cloud, like all other strategic projects, should be a methodical planned exercise.

Fujitsu has announced the global extension of its digital Platform-as-a-Service — RunMyProcess — with the addition of new regional cloud platforms in Australia and North America to add to existing platforms in Europe and Asia.

Global unified communications provider BroadSoft has landed its first Australian customer for its BroadCloud managed cloud platform, with telco Optus deploying the solution with its customers.

Telstra is offering its software-defined networking and network virtualisation capabilities, cloud platform and data centres, and global and Australian networks, in one integrated and intelligent platform that provides network-as-a-service.

Queensland’s Fraser Coast Regional Council has deployed the Nutanix enterprise cloud platform to replace an outdated three-tier storage area network and blade server infrastructure in a move expected to reduce the risk of outages on its network.

New Zealand power company Genesis Energy is now running its business from the cloud after migrating its entire IT infrastructure to Spark’s Revera Cloud platform.