The uptake and spending on public cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is increasing among Australia’s businesses and organisations, with market predictions that the Australian IaaS market is on track to grow by more than 60%, reaching $621 million this year and forecast to hit $1.049 billion by 2020.

Customers can now use the Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Services that Larry Ellison announced last month.

Oracle says its latest products put it ahead of Amazon Web Services for infrastructure as a service.

Australia is one of the first markets for Oracle Cloud at Customer, a new service that provides on-premises IaaS.

Centrify has opened its first Australian data centre in response to what it says is strong demand for its Identity-as-a-Service offerings and Australian firms and government agencies wanting to have in-region storage.

Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison used his keynote on day one of Oracle Open World 2015 to give a history lesson and to introduce new cloud applications and new features for existing products.

Fuji Xerox has launched a new IT services and enterprise software division for the Australian market.

Buttonwood Cloud Exchange wants to address the real challenges facing organisations wishing to make use of the cloud.

The adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) technology in Australia may be impeded by a lack of preparedness and insufficient skills amongst IT professionals.

Global IT services company EMC (NYSE: EMC) is acquiring cloud software and services vendor Virtustream and will use the company to underpin its new managed cloud services business.

Worldwide spending on IaaS is predicted by Gartner to reach approximately US$16.5 billion this year. But the company warns of rapid consolidation.

Developers aren't always addressing the right issues first, a visiting executive has warned.

HP has expanded its Helion range of IaaS products with physical and virtual servers preconfigured for workloads such as Microsoft SharePoint and Oracle E-Business Suite.

Infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders have been urged to give a ‘cloud first’ consideration for every project on a application-by-application basis, as a new survey finds that is currently only the case for a minority of CIOs.

Service provider hosted apps and desktops are being taken up mainly by the top end of the SME market, according to Citrix.

Spending on cloud in Australia will double in the next three years, and is beginning to transform many businesses.

Acer’s eBusiness unit operated the website and online ticketing for Taiwanese diva Jody Chiang’s farewell concerts, which went on sale last Sunday. Tickets sold out in 26 minutes after 340,000 users pre-registered as website members.

NEC's Cloud Platform for IaaS has been released in the broader Asia Pacific region following an initial introduction in Japan.

The Australian SMB cloud market grew to $1.7 billion by mid-2014, according to a new study.

Fujitsu is investing US$2 billion over two years in its global cloud services in an initiative which it says is aimed at achieving cloud sales of US3.5 billon, or 350 billion yen in its own currency.