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Australia’s Trusted Infrastructure-as-a-Service Cloud Provider Market 2011
Longhaus, March 2011, Pages: 33
Extensive research study conducted on the state of the Australian IaaS market in 2011. The authors employed its proprietary Pulse vendor ranking methodology to assess the top 34 IaaS vendors in the region.
In 2009 the authors published the first report by an ICT industry analyst firm into the state of cloud computing in Australia entitled Defining cloud computing highlights provider gaps in the Australian ICT market. In that report the authors found that despite significant latent demand for cloud computing services Australia’s ICT market was focused on software-as-a-service at the expense of other cloud offerings. As a result, the choice of infrastructure-as-a-service at that time rested with a very small pool of suppliers including Rejila (Ultra Serve) and LC9.
Since then the authors continued to monitor the development of the local cloud computing market and in 2011, using the the authors Pulse® methodology, conducted a public vendor evaluation focused on trusted Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) providers. For this inaugural Pulse, the authors reviewed over 100 local and international firms claiming to offer a trusted IaaS solution to identify the leading cloud providers for Australian enterprise buyers.
The authors define trusted IaaS as demand elastic, self-service server processing or storage capacity provided using a pool of shared computing resources owned by the cloud provider, accessible via a private link to the cloud provider. Based on this definition and screening criteria which included evidence of serving Australian organisations with greater than 100 employees, the authors conducted detailed assessments of the top 58 of the identified providers based on over 60 criteria. The criteria included measures of company performance, business model, technical features of the solution and geographic commitment including the presence of on-shore data centres. The resulting short-list of 34 vendors includes six (6) leading vendors; IBM (1), Fujitsu (2), Ultra Serve (3), Melbourne IT (4), Telstra (5) and Cloud Central (6).
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