Wednesday 13 June 2012

Aussie cloud boom all about local

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VMWare Australia and New Zealand managing director Duncan Bennet puts the program's growth down to its pricing model, which had meant that "literally one- and two-man organisations" could become cloud providers.

Young Australians just out of university could start up a cloud service, based on an infrastructure provider such as Zettagrid, using VMWare's software, and only pay a small amount until the customers started coming in.

Amazon wasn't cheaper, according to Pereira, once all the charges, such as charging for data in and data out, had been taken into account. Users also encountered latency issues with that provider, and Amazon didn't provide the flexibility that small businesses craved, he said.There was nothing stopping university graduates from creating a Bathurst cloud, Bennet said, or any region or industry creating its own cloud.

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