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The head of an Australian cloud company says the new arrangement for awarding contracts for hosting of top-secret government data have advantages over the older one where there was a fixed list of companies certified by the Australian Signals Directorate who could cast their hat in the ring and tout for business.

Multinational companies are dominating the Australian hyperscale cloud market, according to research from emerging technology analyst firm Telsyte.

Once again, a federal government cloud contract has been handed on a platter to the American firm Microsoft, without local firms even getting a look in.