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• Westpac claims Australian banking first with offsite private cloud move

  ​Westpac today announced it has implemented an offsite private cloud environment in 'an Australian banking first'.

• Village Roadshow takes ticketing and payment system to IBM Cloud

  Village Roadshow has deployed IBM Cloud to host its business infrastructure to scale during peak periods.

• How IBM plans to get with the times

  The IBM Edge2014 infrastructure event hinted at how the company plans to use experience to its advantage. Far from burning out or fading away like an aging rock star, IBM intends to join today's young rockers on stage -- and steal the show.

• IBM complaint might have just cost Amazon $600M CIA cloud deal

  Amazon Web Services may have just lost out on a $600 million contract to supply cloud computing services to the Central Intelligence Agency, after the federal government upheld a protest that IBM had made related to the awarding of the contract.

• Think cloud is no big deal? IBM and Salesforce.com just spent a combined $4.5 billion on it

  It's raining money from the clouds as Salesforce.com and IBM this week together spent a total of $4.5 billion to boost their cloud computing services.

• IBM: Hey CIA, why let Amazon build you a private cloud?

  Amazon pulled off a coup a few months back, reportedly securing a $600 million contract to build a cloud for the CIA.

• IBM says OpenStack will be central to its future cloud strategy

  Already a platinum member of the cloud operating system platform OpenStack, IBM officials said open source code from the project will be the foundation of the company's cloud strategy moving forward, including a new product it announced today.

• IBM takes aim at Amazon in the cloud

  In what appears to be a swipe at market leader Amazon Web Services, IBM this week has announced a new version of its public cloud computing offering that provides customers additional support and services to manage enterprise applications in its cloud, such as those from SAP.

• Cloud service partnerships could boom in 2013

  Cloud service providers will seek out partnerships to offer a wider breadth of services that customers are increasingly demanding, a new report from research firm Current Analysis predicts.

• CES 2013: IBM wants to connect your whole house to its Cloud

  A big theme at this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has been the connected home. There are televisions connected to the Cloud; refrigerators connected to the Internet; heating, lighting and security systems connected to sensors and monitors. And IBM wants all of those devices to be connected to its Cloud.

• 16 of the most useful cloud management tools

  One of the biggest concerns users have with public cloud resources is not knowing how much they will cost, given the pay-as-you-go model.