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Cloud identity provider ThycoticCentrify has added multi-cloud support to its Account Lifecycle Manager.

Tony Nicol founded Servian in 2008 and after selling to Cognizant is now embarking on his new venture, Vivanti, which launched today in the USA. Nicol’s goal is to reimagine cloud consultancy in the States, specialising in the latest tech and introducing a new standard of professional governance.

GUEST OPINION: As the world spins towards 2022, it is clear that the new year will see our reliance on cloud technologies becoming more vital than ever before.

COMPANY NEWS: Australian tech company Taguchi and Italian scale-up The Data Appeal have won the first travel retailing challenge sponsored by Travelport Accelerator, a program launched in collaboration with technology company Travelport and Amazon Web Services.

Digital infrastructure company Equinix opens a new international business exchange data centre in Perth named PE3.

At today's AWS re:Invent 2021 conference in Las Vegas the company announced robots take centre stage in the company’s future plans, while data continues to be a hot topic.

Businesses of all sizes recognise there is valuable information hidden within their troves of data, yet AWS research identified 62% of ANZ organisations have a basic or beginner level of data maturity. AWS wants to help and today announced it has brought its free Data Lab program to this region. iTWire has already tested it out and can tell you what to expect.

The AWS free tier has been around since 2010 with uncharged offerings around 100 different AWS services. Today AWS announced it is expanding the free tier’s data transfer capacity from 1GB to 100GB for regions and from 50GB to a massive 1TB for Amazon CloudFront.

COMPANY NEWS: Kong, creators of the leading service connectivity platform, has introduced KongForce, its second-generation partner program that now includes more than 200 partners, a tenfold increase since 2019. During this same period, Kong's revenue through partners and the channel doubled year over year and is poised to accelerate in the next 12 months. Kong has established partnerships with leading technology and service providers including AWS, Infosys, Okta, Publicis Sapient, Red Hat and Wipro, among others.

CMD Solutions has achieved the AWS Service Delivery designation for AWS Lambda, a serverless compute service.

Anchor, part of Hostpia Australia, today announced its Agile Cloud Engineering (ACE) offering. This is the first-of-its-kind in Australia, advancing the MSP model and changing how cloud services are consumed.

AWS's Babelfish for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition – a service that allows applications written for Microsoft SQL Server to run directly on Amazon Aurora with little to no code changes – is now generally available.

Analytics provider Qlik has introduced Qlik Forts, a hybrid cloud service that the company says securely extends Qlik's cloud analytics capabilities to wherever data and compute need to reside.

The man nominated to be the Operational Testing and Evaluation director at the US Department of Defence has expressed frustration at the fact that contracts with commercial cloud providers — like those sold by Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google — do not provide room for independent cyber assessments.

Data management specialist Cohesity now offers disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS), with the option of using AWS as the recovery location for failover and failback.

More than 900 students from St Margaret’s Anglican Girls School and Moreton Bay College are giving 900 solar powered lights developed by SolarBuddy to children living in energy poverty in light of International Day of the Girl Child, today, 11 October.

Despite all the brouhaha over the alleged threat posed by China, the Federal Government does not seem overly concerned when it comes to cloud hosting of its sensitive data. Else, how does one account for the fact that the Digital Transformation Agency has given Amazon Web Services, a company that has links to a Chinese-owned data centre, the green light for hosting government data?

Developer security specialist Snyk has appointed Marc Tan to the newly created role of channels and alliances director for Australia and New Zealand.

Four cloud companies have achieved Strategic Hosting Provider certification under the Federal Government's Hosting Certification Framework. One of them, Sliced Tech, was acquired by global consultancy Deloitte on Thursday.

Global application development company OutSystems and Deloitte Consulting have expanded their 13-year alliance to include a Center of Excellence (COE) focused on providing cloud-based industry solutions utilising Amazon Web Services (AWS) on a global scale.