Cloud
Where the cloud is the new normal
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QUENTIN HARDY Amazon Web Services wants to be the rarest thing of all in the technology industry: a long-lived company.
Google is its own secret weapon in the cloud
![The HTC One M9. HTC has used Google to build computing architecture that enables smartphone apps to update data quickly.](/web/20151127063248im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/1/3/u/a/x/n/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.ghprmv.png/1434495634256.jpg)
Quentin Hardy Google is wielding a new weapon against Amazon and Microsoft for cloud computing customers: itself.
Cloud
Rightsizing: the best way to tackle cloud computing
![Transitioned: Hipages CEO David Vitek (centre) with VP of Engineering, Chris Iona and VP of Product, Dino Talic.](/web/20151127063248im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/1/3/y/y/q/x/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.13yy2t.png/1425962577399.jpg)
Stuart Corner The cloud's advantages over an in-house system are not necessarily simple, or fixed.
Cloud
Bulletproof results reveal rush to public cloud services
![Australan businesses are increasingly taking to the cloud.](/web/20151127063248im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/1/1/f/z/z/1/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.13ufis.png/1437547357834.jpg)
Stuart Corner As an ASX listed company, Bulletproof offers one of the few insights into the financials of the expanding Australian cloud computing market.
Cloud
IBM paints the computing cloud blue
![IBM CEO Virginia Rometty.](/web/20151127063248im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/1/3/n/2/1/1/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.13n16m.png/1424735710546.jpg)
Quentin Hardy Company announces a series of technologies and investments designed to win business customers over to IBM’s version of modern computing.
Energy
Apple to build $1 billion solar plant to power California operations
![Apple CEO Tim Cook has ambitious plans to expand the gadget giant into the car market.](/web/20151127063248im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/1/3/b/f/g/1/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.13bf52.png/1424728921829.jpg)
Julia Love Apple has committed nearly $1 billion to help build a solar energy farm.
Cloud
MYOB counts on innovation to fend off Xero
![Road showdown: MYOB, headed by Tim Reed, will hit the road at the same time as Xero.](/web/20151127063248im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/1/3/9/y/t/o/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.139ys0.png/1423617701726.jpg)
Beverley Head Accounting software rivals MYOB and Xero are now focusing less on price to attract clients.
Cloud
Telstra eyes undersea cable company Pacnet
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Telstra is in talks to buy the company that owns the world's largest private submarine cable network, Pacnet.
Virtualisation
VMWare to virtualise network next
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Lia Timson Cloud computing is growing at an incredible pace in Australia, but, if not careful, companies risk adding unnecessary complexity to their IT systems.
Onshore
Microsoft Office 365 steps onto Australian cloud promising data stays onshore
![Transition: Improved apps and extra storage make Microsoft's Office 365 more attractive than ever.](/web/20151127063248im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/1/1/f/z/x/w/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.122jt1.png/1418075255422.jpg)
Beverley Head Executives and public servants afraid of putting their documents on an overseas cloud have been assured their data will not leave Australia after March.
Cloud
Spoilt for choice in a hot cloud market
![Cloud or vapour: it can be hard to tell the difference in cloud computing.](/web/20151127063248im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/1/1/j/1/k/n/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.11uyj4.png/1417070920988.jpg)
Liam Tung Australia is now awash with public cloud providers. Here's what you need to know to make a decision.
Cloud
How your job could soon vanish thanks to the cloud
![The cloud is great for data analysis and product testing, bad for middle managers.](/web/20151127063248im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/1/1/c/a/q/f/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.11t68a.png/1416921970288.jpg)
Quentin Hardy Technology has been accused of making many a job disappear, on the production line or in the accounting office. And it is not done yet.
Cloud
Canberra Cloud is first large scale cloud platform for federal government
![Overcoming resistance: Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull launched Canberra Cloud for government agencies.](/web/20151127063248im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/1/1/s/l/z/3/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.11sce2.png/1416790915704.jpg)
Ross Peake Canberra Cloud will provide secure storage for sensitive data up to Protected Level.
Big data
Parkinson's sufferers benefit from software that pulls in cloud resources on demand
![Actor Michael J. Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1991.](/web/20151127063248im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/1/1/q/b/2/4/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.11pymb.png/1416447712770.jpg)
Nate Cochrane A software platform so smart, it could take care of all the computing and data analysis needed to allow Parkinson's disease researchers to focus on finding a cure.
Cloud
Amazon to keep investing in cloud despite margin pressure
![Amazon Web Services has vowed to build data centres in all major countries around the world.](/web/20151127063248im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/1/1/m/1/f/k/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.11m16z.png/1415852837346.jpg)
Deepa Seetharaman Amazon.com plans to build data centers in every large country over time as part of a broader investment push that will eventually make the internet retailer's cloud computing arm the largest part of its business.
Cloud
Government moves websites to the cloud to save dollars
![Every cent counts: The Australian government is moving its websites to the cloud to save costs.](/web/20151127063248im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/1/1/9/r/y/m/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.11khq1.png/1432023772646.jpg)
Beverley Head The federal government has halved the cost of running its main website by shifting to a content management system hosted on the cloud.
Bytes
News bytes for week of November 10, 2014
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G20 tweets all mapped out, DiData buys Oakton, and Cloud Awakening is born.
Public cloud
VMware enters Australia's public cloud via Telstra
![Telstra has beefed up its cloud offering, this time with the help of VMWare.](/web/20151127063248im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/1/1/4/e/5/9/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.11h1tn.png/1415143756202.jpg)
Stuart Corner Software giant VMware has entered the Australian public cloud market via Telstra, promising a service from early 2015.
Adoption
Cloud computing is now mainstream and Australia is ahead: reports
![Australian businesses are dialling up the cloud.](/web/20151127063248im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/1/1/f/z/z/1/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.11fze9.png/1437547357834.jpg)
Stuart Corner Two separate reports released in the past week have independently reached the conclusion that cloud computing is now adopted to meet strategic IT and business goals.
Strategy
Why Microsoft jumped on the fitness Band wagon
![Microsoft Band, available in the US from now.](/web/20151127063248im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/1/1/e/n/1/h/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.11esx2.png/1414724267677.jpg)
Joe Sweeney Microsoft has released a fitness band and a health app. But why? Joe Sweeney explains.