New Zealand IT decision-makers are optimistic, but cautious, about their investment plans this year, and an analyst report just published suggests that businesses will just get on with business as usual and still spend on IT despite the prevailing caution.

Software testing services company, TestPro, has selected IBM’s smartcloud enterprise solution to increase the flexibility and timeliness of its IT service delivery.

The International Telecommunication Union's Telecoms sector (ITU-T) Study Group 13 (SG 13) has created a new working party on cloud computing.

Macquarie Telecom's 'greenfield' data centre site in Fairbairn ACT has been added to the Federal Government's data centre facilities panel, even though Macquarie has not yet committed to building a data centre on the site. Also added is a site owned by Dell at Hume in the ACT.

A New Zealand study into the potential applications and demand for high-speed broadband services has concluded that cloud computing services for consumers could be a major driver.

OzHub, the Macquarie Telecom-led cloud computing alliance, has come down firmly on the side of Optus over the copyright controversy surrounding Optus TV Now, warning that any moves to change the law "risk branding Australia a global luddite state."

Australia’s peak ICT industry body is bringing Vivek Kundra, the former White House CIO and author of the Obama government’s Cloud First policy to inject some “fact” into the debate surround cloud uptake. Today of course Mr Kundra is an executive vice president with Salesforce.com – a company with a vested interest in talking up the cloud.

F-Secure has announced a cloud based content storage and synchronisation service, Content Anywhere, that synchronises a user's files in the cloud, making them accessible on PCs, tablets, smartphones and digital TVs.

Leading Australian managed services and cloud computing provider, Brennan IT, is bringing Microsoft Hyper-V to its cloud platform following the recent $1.5 million upgrade of its Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform as it gears up to meet what it says is rising demand for its cloud services.

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider, OutSystems, has snared a major contract with the United States Department of Defense to assist with consolidation in 962 of the army's data centres across the US by 2015.