{"id":5095,"date":"2012-12-13T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2012\/dec\/13\/is-australia-about-to-go-through-a-cloud-boom\/"},"modified":"2012-12-13T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T16:30:00","slug":"is-australia-about-to-go-through-a-cloud-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/is-australia-about-to-go-through-a-cloud-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Australia about to go through a cloud boom?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent evidence suggests that cloud competition in Australia is about to intensify. Australia&rsquo;s high-tech population and its concern about cloud-hosting outside of the country should prove very tempting for cloud companies to set up domestically.<\/p>\n<p>Technology research firm, Gartner believes that the cloud market spending will reach $2.4 billion this year, which is an increase of about 20% from last year. It is predicted that there will then be continual increases of around 16% per year until 1016.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon Web Services has just set up in Sydney, with two &lsquo;availability zones&rsquo; and Rackspace is launching its cloud data centre in Sydney, also. This should open up a number of cloud services to the Australian consumer.<\/p>\n<p>Gartner says that they have &ldquo;seen a lot of interest in cloud services, both public cloud and private cloud services, in Australia&#8230;so even when Amazon did not have a direct presence in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent evidence suggests that cloud competition in Australia is about to intensify. Australia&rsquo;s high-tech population and its concern about cloud-hosting outside of the country should prove very tempting for cloud companies to set up domestically&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}