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• VMware Cloud on AWS reaches New Zealand and Australia

  'People are interested in how this will help them differentiate'

• Rackspace and HPE offer public cloud-style pricing for private cloud

  Rackspace has partnered with HP Enterprise to offer pay-as-you-go private cloud services based on OpenStack.

• ​Curious about tech? Not in NZ businesses

  Curious Kiwi organisations are more likely to see greater technological innovation and application in the workplace.

• ​1 in 10 NZ IT teams waste over $100K a year on redundant tech

  IT departments across New Zealand are spending big on redundant technology.

• Why technological change is making IT decisions harder

  "The impact of IT failure is more public and more punitive than ever before. This is an industry-wide challenge.”

• The Cloud is too hard, so Intel launched a sweeping project to fix it

  Intel has kicked off a broad effort to speed the adoption of the modern cloud infrastructure, which it says has been slow to take off because the software is complex and takes too long to deploy.

• AWS market share reaches five-year high despite Microsoft Cloud growth surge

  “The momentum that has been built up at AWS and Microsoft is particularly impressive."

• Rackspace DNS recovers after DDoS brings system down

  Managed cloud service provider Rackspace has recovered from a DDoS attack that crippled the company's DNS servers for 11 hours earlier this week.

• Xen Project discloses serious vulnerability that impacts virtualized servers

  The Xen Project has revealed the details of a serious vulnerability in the Xen hypervisor that could put the security of many virtualized servers at risk.

• Rackspace plans direct presence in NZ

  Rackspace is planning to hire in New Zealand in the next few months to support its activity in the country.
  

• IDC: Apps will drive public cloud spending to sustained double-digit growth

  Global spending on public cloud services reached US$45.7 billion last year and will experience a 23 percent compound annual growth rate through 2018, according to analyst firm IDC.

• Case study: vWork relies on the cloud to support customer growth

  Cloud-based workforce scheduling provider vWork is expecting massive growth in the near future, including a doubling of staff by the end of the year.

• CoreOS Linux distro lands on the Google Cloud Platform

  CoreOS, a new lightweight Linux distribution customized for massive server deployments, has found a home on the Google Cloud Platform, giving organizations an easy way to test and use the software for their clusters and distributed computer programs.

• Startup Digital Ocean lands $37m to take on Amazon in the Cloud

  There are a lot of big names in the public cloud computing market: Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft, Verizon and Rackspace among them. And here's another company that's looking to make that list one day: Digital Ocean.

• Cloud optimisation tools go hybrid

  One of the hottest categories of tools to help manage your Cloud computing deployment has been optimisation and price performance services that recommend how you can more efficiently use Cloud resources. Up until now, however, these services have been focused on public Cloud providers like Amazon Web Services and Rackspace.