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The author of a recent report on cloud computing service providers says his research uncovered some worrying statistics about the security and reliability of many cloud providers.

Providers of cloud services should invest in IT service management (ITSM) capability in order to enable their customers to better monitor the performance of the infrastructure that underpins their services, and to differentiate their offerings in an increasingly crowded market.

Independent software vendors and small and medium enterprises are being offered a two month free trial of Fujitsu's Australian based cloud computing platforms as the company attempts to gee up interest outside the enterprise sector.

Independent software vendors and small and medium enterprises are being offered a two month free trial of Fujitsu's Australian based cloud computing platforms as the company attempts to gee up interest outside the enterprise sector.

SoftLayer Technologies, a US based provider of cloud, dedicated, and managed hosting services - named by Australian market researcher firm Longhaus as a leading offshore cloud provider in Australia - has entered the Asia Pacific market with the opening of a data centre in Singapore and network points of presence in Singapore, Tokyo, and Hong Kong.

After three months' analysis of the 115 organisations which claim to provide enterprise grade, or trusted, infrastructure cloud computing services in Australia the top seven suppliers have been named by research organisation Longhaus. The envelope please'¦

The listed giants of the IT industry - think IBM, HP, CSC - have grown used to satisfying the quarterly appetites of shareholders and become lean and effective revenue machines in the process. The question that many are grappling with now though is; will their shareholders have the patience to allow them to transition their business models for the new world of cloud computing?

CloudCentral has been listed as one of the 6 leading Australian providers of true cloud infrastructure services to the domestic market.

An industry watchdog which can police the cloud computing market is needed to avoid enterprises coming unstuck when offloading their computing to a cloud provider. In the same way that APRA keeps an eye on the local banks, delivering a measure of comfort when people hand over their dosh, a cloud watchdog would provide a measure of comfort when people hand over their data.

After three months' analysis of the 115 organisations which claim to provide enterprise grade, or trusted, infrastructure cloud computing services in Australia the top seven suppliers have been named by research organisation Longhaus. The envelope please'¦

Ian Reinecke has brushed off suggestions his report into Canberra's progress with the Gershon reforms may be buried by the Gillard government, telling iTWire he expects its release in October.

The Australian Public Service has failed in its implementation of the Gershon report recommendations according to Peter Carr, the managing director of analyst Longhaus, who said that ICT contractors have been unfairly targeted by Canberra razor gangs cutting $22 million in the first year of implementation.

Almost two in three Australian enterprises now has a policy or strategy in place regarding the use of Free Open Source Software, with just about every enterprise using elements of open source in their day to day operations.

We keep hearing that security is one of the main factors discouraging cloud adoption, but are these concerns well founded?

Business intelligence applications are the latest technology to get the cloud treatment with new research suggesting that 69 per cent of Australian CIOs are using, planning or considering BI delivered as a service.