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• Smart meter manufacturer finds scale with PaaS

  EDMI has used Microsoft’s Azure cloud services to provide scalability to its key software platform as the company helps its customers roll out increasingly large fleets of smart meters.

• Telstra makes strategic investment in Chinese PaaS provider

  Telstra Ventures has taken a strategic stake in Cloopen, a Beijing-headquartered platform-as-a-service provider.

• Larry Ellison: Extend your SaaS apps in our cloud

  Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison claims that the computing giant is the only cloud vendor on "planet Earth" that allows organisations to use its platform to extend their software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications.

• Fire & Rescue NSW unveils new mobililty strategy

  Fire & Rescue NSW (FRNSW) sees a future where its 7,500 staff can access technology services anywhere from any unmanaged, web-connected device, as the organisation re-engineers its back-end systems to support a mobility strategy.

• VMware launches open source PaaS project

  VMware has launched Cloud Foundry, an open source platform-as-a-service project aimed at stimulating development of Cloud apps.