Why Hollywood animation powerhouses are resisting the cloud
Despite new performance bottlenecks, the digital animation and visual effects industry is very reluctant to move their productions to the cloud, according to Sydney's Animal Logic.
Where the cloud is the new normal
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
Google is wielding a new weapon against Amazon and Microsoft for cloud computing customers: itself.
Rightsizing: the best way to tackle cloud computing
The cloud's advantages over an in-house system are not necessarily simple, or fixed.
Bulletproof results reveal rush to public cloud services
As an ASX listed company, Bulletproof offers one of the few insights into the financials of the expanding Australian cloud computing market.
IBM paints the computing cloud blue
Company announces a series of technologies and investments designed to win business customers over to IBM’s version of modern computing.
Apple to build $1 billion solar plant to power California operations
Apple has committed nearly $1 billion to help build a solar energy farm.
MYOB counts on innovation to fend off Xero
Accounting software rivals MYOB and Xero are now focusing less on price to attract clients.
Telstra eyes undersea cable company Pacnet
Telstra is in talks to buy the company that owns the world's largest private submarine cable network, Pacnet.
VMWare to virtualise network next
Cloud computing is growing at an incredible pace in Australia, but, if not careful, companies risk adding unnecessary complexity to their IT systems.
Microsoft Office 365 steps onto Australian cloud promising data stays onshore
Executives and public servants afraid of putting their documents on an overseas cloud have been assured their data will not leave Australia after March.
Spoilt for choice in a hot cloud market
Australia is now awash with public cloud providers. Here's what you need to know to make a decision.
How your job could soon vanish thanks to the cloud
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.
Canberra Cloud is first large scale cloud platform for federal government
Canberra Cloud will provide secure storage for sensitive data up to Protected Level.
Parkinson's sufferers benefit from software that pulls in cloud resources on demand
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.
Amazon to keep investing in cloud despite margin pressure
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.
Government moves websites to the cloud to save dollars
The federal government has halved the cost of running its main website by shifting to a content management system hosted on the cloud.
News bytes for week of November 10, 2014
G20 tweets all mapped out, DiData buys Oakton, and Cloud Awakening is born.
VMware enters Australia's public cloud via Telstra
Software giant VMware has entered the Australian public cloud market via Telstra, promising a service from early 2015.
Cloud computing is now mainstream and Australia is ahead: reports
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.