Spending on shared cloud infrastructure reached $US12.5 billion in the fifth quarter. Spending on compute and storage infrastructure products for cloud deployments, including dedicated and shared environments, increased 17.2 per cent year over year in the first quarter of 2022 (1Q22) to $US18.3 billion. This growth continues a series of…
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State Library of Victoria ditches Oracle
The Library has shifted the support and maintenance contract to Rimini Street. The State Library of Victoria (“Library”), Australia’s oldest library, has entrusted the support and maintenance of its Oracle E-Business software to Rimini Street. Rimini Street is also providing the Library with its Advanced Database Security (ADS) and Advanced…
Read MoreSecuring migration to the cloud
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency published the second version of cloud guidance. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published the second version of “Cloud Security Technical Reference Architecture (TRA)” today, which strengthens guidance to fulfill a key mandate under President Biden’s Executive Order (EO) 14028 – “Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity.” The…
Read MoreCloud-first approach helps the Murray–Darling Basin
More than 2.2 million people live in the basin. There is no denying that the Murray–Darling Basin is an Australian icon. However, its vastness means many people don’t know just how important it is to the nation’s environment, culture, and economy. Encompassing most of NSW, half of Victoria, some of…
Read MoreWorldwide IaaS public cloud services market grew in 2021
Top five IaaS providers account for over 80 per cent of total markets. The worldwide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market grew 41.4 per cent in 2021, to total $US90.9 billion, up from $US64.3 billion in 2020, according to Gartner, Inc. Amazon retained the No. 1 position in the IaaS…
Read MoreAsteroid institute uses revolutionary cloud-based astrodynamics platform
Demonstrating a new era of software-driven asteroid discovery. The Asteroid Institute, a program of B612 Foundation, today announced it is using a ground-breaking computational technique running on its Asteroid Discovery Analysis and Mapping (ADAM) cloud-based astrodynamics platform to discover and track asteroids. The Minor Planet Centre has confirmed and added the…
Read MoreViettel doubles down on ransomeware protection
Object Lock enables users to create an immutable data backup copy. Vietnamese telco Viettel IDC has deployed Cloudian’s HyperStore object storage as the foundation for its storage service offerings, including Storage-as-a-Service, Backup-as-a-Service and Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service. These services will bring the benefits of HyperStore’s public cloud-like flexibility, limitless scalability and fully…
Read MoreIndian public cloud services market to grow
Market is expected to reach US$13.5 billion by 2026. The Indian public cloud services (PCS) market, including infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solutions, and software-as-a-service (SaaS), revenue totalled US$4.6 Billion for 2021, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Semi-annual Public Cloud Services Tracker, 2H21 (July-December). The overall Indian public cloud services…
Read MoreTrellix reinforces commitment to India with new data centre
The data centre helps customers meet their data residency. Trellix, the cybersecurity company building resilient and confident organizations through living security, today announced the opening of a new data centre in Mumbai which will help customers in India meet their data residency and compliance requirements. The launch of the new…
Read MoreTD Tawandang and Google Cloud democratize analytics and AI
Google Cloud accelerates the delivery of a high-tech platform. TD Tawandang (“TD”), a leading retail technology company, is collaborating with Google Cloud to help conventional mom-and-pop stores reinvent their business operations, overcome competitive challenges, and boost profitability. Thailand’s mom-and-pop stores – also known as shohuays – have traditionally been local communities’ retailers of choice for…
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