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• AWS generated almost half of all IaaS revenue in 2018

  ​The global infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) market has grown 31.3 per cent in 2018 generating US$32.4 billion in revenues according to research firm Gartner.

• Australian cloud spend will hit $4.6 billion this year, says Gartner

  Spending on public cloud services in Australia will reach $4.6 billion this year, according to Gartner forecasts. The spend represents an increase of 18.5 per cent on last year, the overwhelming majority of it being splashed on software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings.

• Werner Vogels on the rise and rise of AWS in Australia

  The customers around the table are gushing in their praise for Amazon CTO Werner Vogels. One puts his arm round the Dutchman’s broad shoulders to pose for a selfie: “If that’s ok? I’ve got to get one.”

• How a giant like GE found home in the Cloud

  During the past few years, leaders at General Electric have been aggressively migrating the 123-year-old company to the Cloud. But it hasn’t been easy. GE’s CTO for IT explains what roadblocks the industrial giant encountered, and what he’s doing now to ensure other companies who follow suit have a smoother journey.

• How green is Amazon's cloud?

  Amazon Web Services has been under fire in recent weeks from a group of activist customers who are calling for the company to be more transparent in its usage of renewable energy.

• Early OpenStack contributor says cloud project has "lost its heart"

  It started with <a href="https://twitter.com/jmckenty/status/601202657676566528">a Tweet</a> last week from Joshua McKenty: "OpenStack has lost its heart. Last summit I will attend."

• Re-examining Cisco's Intercloud strategy

  About a year ago a group of executives at a Cisco offsite meeting huddled to discuss a very serious issue: What was the company going to do about the cloud?

• Big Switch rolls out SDN starter kits

  SDN pioneer Big Switch Networks this week is expected to unveil "starter kits" designed for its Big Cloud Fabric product that began shipping in September amidst a stream of positive product reviews.

• How the cloud is changing the security game

  Cloud computing offers many advantages, but with those benefits come a new range of security concerns.

• Rackspace rebooting its cloud servers too

  Rackspace is in the process of rebooting a substantial portion of its cloud servers before Oct. 1, most likely to patch a security vulnerability in the Xen open source hypervisor.

• Rackspace bows out of IaaS market

  Rackspace is discontinuing its pure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering in favor of a new category of cloud services named "managed cloud" in which the company will support customers building and managing their cloud services.

• Amazon's four tips to make sure your cloud is secure

  Amazon Web Services has a program named Trusted Advisor that provides customers with advice on the best way to use the company's IaaS cloud services. Today, the company made four checks that Trusted Advisor performs free for all users.

• 5 key takeaways from Amazon's big Cloud day

  Amazon Web Services continued to push the IaaS market forward today by challenging established cloud players like Box and Dropbox with the company's own document collaboration platform and rolling out new features to its public Cloud focused on supporting mobile applications.

• 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.

• Orion Health rolls out converged cloud

  New Zealand health technology solutions provider Orion Health is introducing a converged cloud service to support its global managed health services.