Spending on public cloud services expenditure in Australia is predicted to hit A$5 billion by the end of the year, according to a new Gartner report. This would be a 17.1 percent rise over the $4.3 billion recorded last year, Gartner says. Gartner tips software-as-a-service (SaaS) revenue to rise 25.1 percent to A$1.9 billion, while … Read more
The Australian Taxation Office is reportedly planning to spend at least four years improving its core IT infrastructure as it seeks to overcome the effects of its recent woeful IT failures. The IT systems improvement program represents a “significant shift” in the organisation’s IT strategy, the ATO said in documents published late last week. Its … Read more
Global quarterly spending on datacentre hardware and software has grown by just five percent during the past 24 months, while spending on the public cloud portion of that has grown by 35 percent, according to data from Reno-based Synergy Research. It says the private cloud infrastructure market has also grown, though not as strongly as … Read more