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GUEST OPINION: As organisations flock the cloud, they are initiating new architectures and migrating existing applications to infrastructure-as-a-service providers and hybrid clouds via 'lift and shift' or refactoring.

Equinix provides customers with the ability to enable the consistent control and consumption of data storage services and multi-cloud, where it’s needed the most.

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.

The Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) market in Australia is booming, growing significantly in one year to reach A$393 million, according to a new report which says global IaaS market growth is partly driven by the cloud availability of IaaS in new regions and countries.

By Nicki Pereira, CTO. 

There is no doubt that cloud computing is the most cost-efficient and reliable infrastructure for your business. Many organisations have experienced these benefits, clearly evident with the explosive growth cloud services have seen in recent years.

Global cloud infrastructure as a service provider OVH has announced a network upgrade and new offers as part of its extensive expansion plans in the Asia Pacific region.

New Zealand’s largest telco Spark is claiming a competitive edge as the first Internet service provider to secure Telecommunications as a Service (TaaS) certifications for three of its newest services.

IT services provider Empired says it is playing an exclusive role in a consortium led by NEC to supply GovNext ICT services to the Western Australian Government.

ICT consultancy UXC has secured a $12 million-plus contract to provide application managed services and an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform to water treatment and chemical distribution company Ixom.

Accelerating enterprise cloud migration from on-premise IT infrastructure solutions to hosted alternatives is driving rapid, double-digit growth in the European Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) market.

Enterprise communicatons solutions provider Alcatel-Lucent is claiming a first with the release of what it says is a range of  “game changing”, innovative and industry specific consumption-based communicatons delivery models for businesses of all sizes.

Japan’s NTT Communications has joined the non-profit OpenStack Foundation as a corporate sponsor.

IBM says a new contract with New Zealand’s Ministry of Health is another step in its success in driving strong cloud momentum in the Australia and New Zealand markets.

Global digital services provider Atos has been selected by Western Australia’s Edith Cowan University to migrate the university's entire central IT infrastructure to the cloud and transform it into a more agile, scalable and on-demand infrastructure.

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

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

Canon Australia will host its Therefore Online workflow and information management solution on Fujitsu’s cloud platform, paving the way or a new suite of cloud-based offerings that will allow the delivery of the applications to consumers on a cost-effective subscription model.

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.

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