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• ​Oracle squares up against AWS, but can it win Cloud war?

  Cloud dominance remains corporate focus, with Larry Ellison’s sights set on $US10 billion record.

• Digital tourism agency fast-tracks new listing platform with DevOps

  ​The Australian Tourism Data Warehouse (ATDW) has used a DevOps methodology in the cloud to create a new centralised listing platform.

• Global public Cloud market expected to hit $US204bn in 2016

  The worldwide market for public Cloud systems is projected to hit $US204 billion this year, a 16.5 per cent increase over the $US175 billion market in 2015, according to analyst firm Gartner.

• Optus and Microsoft partner on cloud

  Optus Business will be the first Australian network service provider to partner with Microsoft in its Cloud OS Network.

• Coca-Cola Amatil boosts CRM capabilities with IBM Cloud

  Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) has signed a multi-million dollar agreement to move its Asia Pacific customer planning and relationship management systems to IBM's pay-per-use cloud.

• A/NZ companies eye cloud for business growth: survey

  About two thirds of Australian and New Zealand companies are interested in using public and private cloud services to aid cost effective business growth, according to the results of an IDG Connect/ EMC survey.

• Microsoft and IBM keep the pressure on Amazon's cloud

  Until further notice, Amazon Web Services is the reigning public IaaS cloud leader. But deep-pocketed companies Microsoft and IBM are keeping the pressure on AWS with a flurry of announcements beefing up their clouds to close out the year.

• Public Cloud storage can be efficient, but the potential is still limited

  Public Cloud storage can be a cost efficient alternative to rolling your own, but observers warn that it isn't a cure all.

• Would Amazon Web Services ever build an on-premise private cloud?

  Like some of its major competitors, would Amazon Web ever offer an on-premises private cloud management software?

• Yamaha Joins All-in Migration to the Public Cloud

  Yamaha Corporation of America, maker of musical instruments and high-end audiovisual gear, has joined the ranks of mid-size enterprises leaving their data centers behind and going all in with public cloud infrastructure Ᾱ well, almost. Its Oracle ERP and Cisco voice system remain on-premises for now.

• re:Cap of AWS re:Invent: 10 cool new Amazon Cloud features

  At Amazon Web Services' third annual re:Invent cloud computing conference the market's leading infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) public provider revealed a variety of new cloud service features. Here's a recap of AWS's announcements from re:Invent 2014.

• How Amazon's cloud solved the "perfect storm" in networking

  LAS VEGAS - Amazon Web Services operates at huge scale - in Gartner's latest Magic Quadrant the research firm estimated AWS's capacity at five times larger than the company's next 14 competitors combined.

• CIOs to cloud providers: We don’t trust you

  Many Australian organisations aren’t confident that their cloud service providers can help them move workloads between multiple environments, which is slowing the uptake of hybrid cloud.
  

• VMware brings cloud service to Australia

  VMware has announced that its vCloud Air hybrid cloud service will be available in Australia in the first half of 2015.
  

• Rackspace considering Melbourne for its next data centre

  Data centre and cloud computing vendor Rackspace is considering locating its second Australian data centre in Melbourne for disaster recovery and growth opportunities.