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• Cisco pumping $US1 billion more into Intercloud

  Cisco on Monday said it is expanding on its Intercloud multi-Cloud service provider initiative with another $1 billion investment, designed to lead to more products, datacentres and partners.

• Local Telstra customers testing global Cisco cloud

  Telstra on Monday said the Cisco Intercloud platform is now in live trial mode for selected customers in Australia, which the telco has declined to name.
  

• HP leapfrogs Red Hat to become top contributor to OpenStack

  OpenStack has a new top contributor: HP.

• Enterprises increasingly look to the private Cloud

  Companies interested in moving to cloud computing are increasingly choosing a private cloud for the increased security and, often, compliance features instead of the public cloud, according to a recent survey.

• Google soothes enterprise security concerns with Drive for Work

  Google hopes to ease lingering Australian concerns about data sovereignty as it makes a fresh play to get organisations to adopt its Drive cloud storage service, according to Kevin Ackhurst, managing director of Google Enterprise in Australia.

• How the cloud can make IT shops more innovative

  Jobs at many IT departments have been primarily about maintenance -- handling crashed email systems, ever-expanding security perimeters and users who bringing their own devices to the office

• Aussie public cloud services market worth $305 million: Telsyte

  More than 50 per cent of 315 CIOs and IT executives surveyed by analyst firm Telsyte are now using public cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), according to a new report.

• Public cloud market ready for 'hyergrowth' period

  The public cloud market is set for what one analyst firm calls 'hypergrowth.'

• NOAA wants to turn its ocean of data into jobs

  From ocean sensors to orbiting satellites, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration collects about 30 petabytes of environmental data a year. Now it wants ideas about how best to use what its collected.

• PFD Food Services automates payroll process through the cloud

  Food distribution company PFD Food Services is using a cloud service to automate its payroll process, reducing overhead costs by almost 70 per cent, according to CIO Richard Cohen.

• Cloud debate now about speed and sophistication

  Moving to an as-a-service computing model is inevitable and the discussion across enterprises is no longer just about risk but rather the speed by which services can be delivered to achieve competitive advantage, argues Bernadette Jew.

• 6 tips to help you manage shadow IT

  IT, mobile and security experts offer advice on how to minimise the risks associated with third-party apps and services as well as with employees using their mobile devices in the workplace.

• Rackspace Aims for a More Flexible Public Cloud

  Rackspace Hosting says it has rearchitected its public cloud with a workload-oriented framework designed to deliver optimal performance and price based on the workload. It now comes in two flavors and the company says more are on the way.

• Verizon Recreates the Public Cloud for the Enterprise IT

  For the past two years, Verizon has been quietly re-architecting its public cloud from the ground up to build a new enterprise-focused offering that allows organizations to dial in precisely the level of compute, network and storage they need for individual uses.

• Cloud industry needs to standardize, says Fed CIO

  Frank Baitman, the CIO of the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, was at the Amazon Web Services conference praising the company's services. His talk was on the verge of becoming a long infomercial, when he stepped back and changed direction.