Cloud computing still has a mainframe lining
February 17, 2014
Grazed from AFR. Author: Trevor Clarke.
For all intents and purposes the Australian cloud computing market appears to be thriving. But while the pundits continue to claim it’s the way of the future, tech infrastructure run on businesses’ premises is far from dead. Analyst firms like IDC say the domestic cloud-computing market has become a billion-dollar industry and is likely to break through the $2.5 billion mark in 2017.
Over 80 per cent of the firm’s survey respondents say they are using one form or another of cloud computing. These are promising numbers. Anecdotal evidence in the form of enterprise chief information officers publicly espousing their support for using the cloud, including public cloud services, abounds. And, egged on by true believers, there is a steady stream of “we now have a cloud-first policy” emanating from government policymakers across Australia…
On the supply side, several of the largest public cloud players, including the Amazon Web Services (AWS) juggernaut, have also now accepted that they need a local presence with their own infrastructure housed in facilities in Australia…
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