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Apptio, a global technology spend and value management company, has announced an enhancement to its Cloudability product suite to give FinOps practitioners access to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) usage and cost data natively within the Cloudability platform. The enhancement completes Apptio’s previously announced integration with OCI and extends clients’ ability to analyse and optimise cloud costs across cloud vendors in a centralised view.

Cloudian announced that automotive and construction trade supplier, Würth NZ, has deployed Cloudian HyperStore object storage to store and protect its critical data from ransomware, accelerate data protection, and enable greater automation capabilities across its business. Established in New Zealand in 1987, Würth NZ has become a staple of New Zealand’s automotive, cargo, construction, engineering and wood trade sectors, offering a full range of groundbreaking tools, supplies and digital services. It employs more than 250 staff in New Zealand and has offices in Auckland, Christchurch, Mount Maunganui and Wellington.

OVHcloud, the European Cloud specialist, now provides its Infrastructure-as-a-Service customers with a carbon calculator aimed at giving them monthly reports on their cloud-related carbon emission. With over 20 years of innovation in developing a sustainable cloud through watercooling at scale, OVHcloud continues to set the bar for industry best practice.

Denodo, a specialist in data management, has achieved Google Cloud Ready – Cloud SQL designation. Denodo has thus showed expertise in data integration, management, and delivery of distributed data and proven that its platform enables Cloud SQL clients to tightly integrate and manage their data for advanced analytics, data services, and data science projects on Google Cloud, while taming business disruption and data integration challenges.

Cisco, the enterprise networking and security solutions provider, and Nutanix, Inc., the hybrid multicloud computing firm, announced a partnership to bolster hybrid multicloud deployments by offering the industry's most complete hyperconverged solution for IT modernisation and business transformation. IT organisations continue to face significant operational hurdles and urgent sustainability and security concerns as a result of increasing multicloud complexity.

Infor®, the industry cloud firm, revealed that Riverina Water has deployed Infor CloudSuite Public Sector Customer and Billing modules as part of its digital transformation project, with early, positive signs for the organisation that will have a flow-on effect on customers set to reap the rewards of real-time transaction capabilities anywhere, anytime and on any device.

NetApp®, a cloud-led, data-centric software firm, extended its alliance with Google Cloud to deliver new levels of storage performance combined with simplicity and flexibility of the cloud. With the launch of Google Cloud NetApp Volumes - now available as a fully-managed, first-party service on Google Cloud - clienrs can seamlessly bring business-critical workloads across Windows and Linux environments to Google Cloud, even for the most demanding use cases like VMware and SAP migrations—all without refactoring code or redesigning processes.

OVHcloud, the European Cloud firm, announced a refresh of its all-in-one fully managed web hosting portfolio, providing customers with improved performance and adding a ‘STARTER’ tier for new users discovering OVHcloud's web hosting offering. OVHcloud operates millions of websites running on its infrastructure, and with decades of know-how, it has updated its web hosting portfolio to add more resources to speed up the performance of customer websites.

From two years of unsustainable spending, high levels of consumption and a struggle with high inflation, it’s no secret that Australia could be heading into a recession. While the govt is optimistic this is far from reality, some analysts are predicting Australia is facing a 50% chance of a recession in the next 12 months. Whether it’s if or when a recession is going to happen, business leaders know that economic downturn comes with inevitable cost cutting.

Australia is home to over 2.1 million businesses, of which between 12,000 and 16,000 (0.5% to 0.7%) are Indigenous owned. A further 73,250 Indigenous Aussies are set to join the workforce by 2026 and 2,200 of those are expected to start their own businesses. Australia is facing a shortage of Indigenous companies able to fulfil even a small section of work in the information technology (IT) market. The last census in 2021 revealed that there were only 1,402 Indigenous ICT workers in Australia. In recent years, there’s been a major push to grow the country’s First Nations business sector, and the results are promising.