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New data shows cloud usage in Australia is growing very quickly, with twice as many enterprises adopting Iinfrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) in 2013 as in the previous year.

IT services provider Dimension Data and Cisco have expanded their 23-year partnership, with plans to accelerate and streamline hybrid cloud adoption globally.

Australia is lagging behind the rest of the world in the digital stakes when it comes to digital-leadership, according to a new global report which warns that our IT leaders need to take up the challenge of digitalisation or risk falling further behind.

Cloud services are no longer a ‘nice-to-have’ but are now a ‘strategic necessity’ for the corporate IT world, according to industry analysts who say the rate of global cloud adoption is quickly accelerating.

The focus of attention for cloud computing at larger Australian organisations is shifting towards SaaS, according to a major consulting company.

Hardware and software company Oracle has become a corporate sponsor of the OpenStack Foundation and has announced a set of plans to add OpenStack compatibility or integration to a range of its products.

Oracle has announced 10 new services under the Oracle Cloud umbrella, including a marketplace for third parties to offer their services on Oracle's cloud.

BlueCentral's (formerly Destra) new strategy of competing directly with Macquarie Telecom, Rackspace, Bulletproof and Amazon in the enterprise infrastructure as a service market "is working quite well," managing director George Kazangi told iTWire.

VMware has announced it will enter the IaaS market later this year with VMware vCloud Hybrid Service, a public cloud service that will be interoperable with existing VMware virtualised infrastructure.

BlueCentral has opened up its enterprise-grade IaaS platform and signed the first customers.

Gartner has issued its Magic Quadrant for cloud services, putting Amazon Web Services streets ahead of its nearest rival.

AT&T and IBM have joined forces to create a private-network based global cloud service for the largest multinationals by delivering IBM SmartCloud Enterprise+ cloud capabilities over AT&T's global network.

Yandex, the leading search engine in Russia and the world's fifth largest search engine, is using Nimbula Director as part of its private cloud infrastructure.

Australian businesses have moved past the initial cost savings they get from the adoption of cloud solutions to recognising the increased agility and scalability that adoption offers, according to a new report from Frost & Sullivan.

After examining enterprise usage of every flavour of cloud computing (IaaS, SaaS, PaaS) Ovum has concluded that Cloud computing "can actually be a better, faster, less expensive and less risky way to source ICT," and that successful implementation depends more on leadership and decisiveness than technology.

Australian hosting and cloud services provider, 6YS, has deployed Brocade's ethernet fabric and routing infrastructure as a foundation for what it says is the rapid growth of its Ironpoint Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering.

Managed services provider, Brennan IT has had its contract with national furniture retailer Super A-Mart extended in a new three-year, $3.6 million deal to provide hosted managed services including servers, a national private IP network linking all 40 Super A-Mart sites and a fully managed print service.

As part of the growth of its cloud and managed services business, Australian managed services company, Brennan IT, has selected data centre services company, Equinix, for the ongoing expansion of its cloud infrastructure and services platform.

OpSource, Dimension Data's wholly owned enterprise cloud and managed hosting business acquired last year,  has been positioned by Gartner in the Challengers quadrant of its Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Magic Quadrant for Managed Hosting reports.

Telstra's IaaS has been given the tick of approval by Cisco.