cloud landscape in australia
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Cloud Landscape in AustraliaEthann Castell (MBA,PMP)ethann.castell@virtual-media.net.au
My Perspective
Engage with medium-sized businesses (<5000 staff)
Work at a number of different levels; Strategic, Management, Architecture and occasionally hands-on.
Deal with a number of vendors (IBM, Amazon, Microsoft, Salesforce etc)
Attend majority of cloud events in Sydney
Seems like a Land Run
Barriers to cloud adoption
Similar to most other countries Security Data Sovereignty Hype Confusion – “cloudwashing”
Shift from talking to doing
Image courtesy of blossomblogs.com
Some examples
News Corp – AWS for on-demand QA infrastructure
IAA – Complete Office365 for less than cost of current email
One Health Organisation – SalesForce (free!) New businesses or business models
ClickFrenzy Horoo
Job market as an indicator
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Source: seek.com.au
Job market as an indicator
Job market may not be the whole story… In-house IT staff Vendors, consultants and business partners Self-service
Australian data centres
Most vendors have actual or planned data centers: IBM Amazon Microsoft Rackspace Others…
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Has captured a large amount of mindshare Public events are very well attended
2012 event was a “sell out” Some confusion of product line names
EC2,S3 etc. Extremely active partner program
e.g. June had 10 – 15 partner webinars
Microsoft
Windows Azure and Office365 Seem to have got it right this time (MSN!) Leveraging established Office and SharePoint
customer base Office365 extremely attractive for many orgs
50% cheaper than IBM offering for recent client
Business Apps, Cloud Platform, App Engine High brand recognition Multiple leverage points
Android, Gmail, Google+…
The others
Oracle – quiet but recent announcement of partnerships with SalesForce and Microsoft
VMWare – active but uncertainty about future IBM, HP etc ???
Thank You!
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