{"id":8250,"date":"2013-07-15T23:23:24","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T23:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/jul\/16\/cloud-computing-australia-pros-cons-and-questions-ask\/"},"modified":"2013-07-15T23:23:24","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T23:23:24","slug":"cloud-computing-in-australia-pros-cons-and-questions-to-ask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-computing-in-australia-pros-cons-and-questions-to-ask\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud computing in Australia: Pros, cons and questions to ask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The International Data Center (IDC) researchers have this week put into writing what many will already suspect: cloud computing continues to grow in Australia. But does this all fit in with recent coverage?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>86% of Australian enterprises currently use cloud computing in some aspect, up from 71% this time last year, according to the latest report from IDC, &ldquo;Australia Cloud Services 2013-2017 Forecast and Analysis&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, there&rsquo;s still a fair amount of future gazing in the report, with IDC predicting that the Australian public cloud services market will grow to a whopping A$2,671.9 million (&pound;1,631m) in 2017, meaning a compound annual growth rate of 24.7% for that five year period.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the pinch of salt which generally needs to be taken with such statistics, these are still impressive numbers.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, IDC Australia cloud services senior analyst Raj Mudaliar said cloud &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Data Center (IDC) researchers have this week put into writing what many will already suspect: cloud computing continues to grow in Australia. But does this all fit in with recent coverage?<br \/>\n86% of Australian enterprises currently use c&#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-8250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8250","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=8250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}