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• AWS generated almost half of all IaaS revenue in 2018

  ​The global infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) market has grown 31.3 per cent in 2018 generating US$32.4 billion in revenues according to research firm Gartner.

• Optus Business launches ready-to-go services suite

  Optus Business has launched a “ready-to-go” ICT services suite, Optus Go.

• ​Why Larry Ellison’s continued criticism of AWS is tech’s biggest case of fake news

  Oracle’s misguided attempts to belittle competition continues to undermine genuine progress.

• New partners join Federal Govt's cloud services panel

  ​Qualtrics, SRA Information Technology, and Axalon are among a host of new IT providers appointed to the Federal Government’s cloud services panel.

• How a giant like GE found home in the Cloud

  During the past few years, leaders at General Electric have been aggressively migrating the 123-year-old company to the Cloud. But it hasn’t been easy. GE’s CTO for IT explains what roadblocks the industrial giant encountered, and what he’s doing now to ensure other companies who follow suit have a smoother journey.

• How green is Amazon's cloud?

  Amazon Web Services has been under fire in recent weeks from a group of activist customers who are calling for the company to be more transparent in its usage of renewable energy.

• Cloud infrastructure to reach $775m by 2019: Telsyte

  The trend in businesses moving their infrastructure into the cloud is forecast to continue to rise over the next few years, reaching $775 million in the Australian market by 2019, according to analyst firm Telsyte.

• Early OpenStack contributor says cloud project has "lost its heart"

  It started with <a href="https://twitter.com/jmckenty/status/601202657676566528">a Tweet</a> last week from Joshua McKenty: "OpenStack has lost its heart. Last summit I will attend."

• Companies should be 'extremely cautious' when selecting IaaS vendors: Gartner

  Companies planning a shift to cloud infrastructure should be extremely cautious in their vendor selection process, due to a shifting marketplace, according to Gartner.

• Re-examining Cisco's Intercloud strategy

  About a year ago a group of executives at a Cisco offsite meeting huddled to discuss a very serious issue: What was the company going to do about the cloud?

• Big Switch rolls out SDN starter kits

  SDN pioneer Big Switch Networks this week is expected to unveil "starter kits" designed for its Big Cloud Fabric product that began shipping in September amidst a stream of positive product reviews.

• Feds reinforce cloud adoption roadmap

  The Federal Government’s $6 billion ICT spending program will see a greater uptake of cloud services. Under new guidelines, agency heads will be able to use hosted services in Australia and offshore.

• How the cloud is changing the security game

  Cloud computing offers many advantages, but with those benefits come a new range of security concerns.

• Rackspace rebooting its cloud servers too

  Rackspace is in the process of rebooting a substantial portion of its cloud servers before Oct. 1, most likely to patch a security vulnerability in the Xen open source hypervisor.

• Rackspace bows out of IaaS market

  Rackspace is discontinuing its pure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering in favor of a new category of cloud services named "managed cloud" in which the company will support customers building and managing their cloud services.