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• Cisco and IBM offer a managed private cloud service

  Cisco and IBM have partnered to offer managed private cloud-as-a-service for VMware and IBM/RedHat OpenShift environments.

• WA Health ramps up digital journey to improve healthcare services

  The Western Australian Department of Health (WA Health) has inked a $123 million deal with Atos in a bid to transition and digitise its ICT systems with a mix of cloud services and platforms that will improve the provision of healthcare services.

• Airservices Australia flying high after 'biggest transition to cloud in government history'

  Airservices Australia has embraced innovation and heavily invested in technology in a bid to deliver safe, more efficient and innovative services, according to its newly released 2017-2018 Annual Report.

• Optus Business launches ready-to-go services suite

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

• Emirates and IBM sign 10-year IT services deal

  Dubai’s Emirates Airlines has inked a US$300 million technology services deal with IBM in a bid to improve airline efficiency on its passenger support systems and functions.

• Brisbane Airport extends managed services contract with Data#3

  ​CIO of Brisbane Airport Corporation (BAC), Mansoor Karatela, has welcomed the extension of the managed services contract with Data#3, calling it a “logical progression” in its bid to drive operational efficiencies across the vast ICT environment.

• DFAT outsources support to NEC

  The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has awarded NEC a four-year contract to provide support for 12,000 end users at 160 sites globally.
  

• Google moves two cloud data analysis services out of beta

  Two Google big data toolsets have finally moved out of beta and into full commercial release, adding to its cloud portfolio a data analysis framework and a service for managing data streams in real-time.

• IBM aims new IoT community site at developers

  Hoping to rally the worldwide development community around the Internet of Things and drive business to its cloud services as well, IBM has launched a community space for programmers to write software to connect remote devices to back-end cloud systems.

• IBM launches its data warehouse service into the Cloud

  Jumping into an increasingly competitive market, IBM has launched a cloud-based data warehouse service, which the company says offers a way for enterprises to analyze their operations while bypassing most of the headaches that come with running such a system in-house.

• Google lures businesses to Nearline with 100 PB of free cloud storage

  Google had its sights fixed firmly on Amazon Thursday as it launched its new, low-cost Nearline cloud storage service out of beta and into general availability.

• Oracle completes its stack of Cloud services (+11 photos)

  Oracle has launched a number of new Cloud services that the company claims will provide enterprises with all the tools they need to run their operations in the cloud.

• IBM books CopLink into the cloud

  Potentially giving smaller law enforcement agencies a hand in fighting crime, IBM has migrated its CopLink search service to the cloud, minimizing the amount of work needed to hook into the North American crime-fighting database.

• IBM Watson gets smart in the oil refinery business

  Australian energy company Woodside Energy hopes to strike a gusher in its own backyard -- a gusher of information, that is.

• Google offers cut-rate computing for low-priority jobs

  Got a cloud computing job that doesn't need to be completed right away? Google says it has a deal for you.