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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.

• vGRID first in NZ to deploy HPE Synergy ‘composable infrastructure’

  ​vGRID, a New Zealand based SaaS and IaaS provider focussed on the small to medium business market, has moved from its datacentre at Waikato Innovation Park into Datacom’s Kapua data centre and has become the first company in New Zealand to deploy HPE’s Synergy product, claimed by HPE to embody a new architecture that it calls ‘composable infrastructure’.

• ​Enterprise investment drives “as a Service” shift to hybrid cloud

  “Professional services adoption goes hand in hand with increasingly complicated hybrid IT implementations.”

• EXCLUSIVE: Has IBM NZ missed first Health Benefits Limited deadline?

  IBM New Zealand has allegedly failed in its bid to deliver on its first contractual deadline with the Crown company Health Benefits Limited.

• INSIGHT: Hidden complexities of software licensing in the cloud

  “Contrary to popular belief, moving to the cloud does not make software licensing challenges disappear…”

• AWS, Microsoft and Google dominate as “brutal” cloud landscape shifts

  “The sky is not falling - customers are getting great value out of cloud IaaS - but the competitive landscape is shifting.”

• AWS leads IaaS race, not forgetting Microsoft, VMware and Rackspace

  Amazon Web Services remains the leader in Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) adoption among enterprise IT buyers, but the net is closing in.

Whitepapers about iaas

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  Moving Microsoft Windows Workloads to Public Cloud

  By 2018, the majority of enterprise workloads will be deployed to the cloud as organisations continue to increase the rate IaaS and SaaS adoption. A decreased management burden, increased scalability and reduced hardware costs have all helped to build the business case for cloud migration, with Microsoft applications recognising additional benefits in terms of security and performance. This 451 Research paper looks at the current state of cloud adoption amongst organisations and discusses the benefits migrating Microsoft workloads to the public cloud could have for your business.

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  The F5 cloud migration reference architecture

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  Selecting the optimal path to private cloud

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  IDC Whitepaper: Selecting the Optimal Path to Private Cloud