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  By InfoWorld staff | 16 May, 2012 05:16

  Thanks to the success of Amazon EC2, Salesforce, and other public cloud services, most enterprises understand the value of cloud computing, and an increasing number of enterprises are exploring the idea of getting into the cloud computing business. Why not? Launching a public cloud service may establish a new revenue stream -- or self-service convenience for customers -- with minimal additions to existing infrastructure.

• United Energy switches on IT projects

  By Hamish Barwick | 09 May, 2012 15:32

  Melbourne electricity distributor, United Energy (UE), has invested $100 million in IT projects designed to overhaul aging platforms in its electricity and gas divisions.

• Q&A: Super A-Mart CIO, Angela Ryan

  By Hamish Barwick | 10 April, 2012 10:07

  Super A-Mart chief information officer, Angela Ryan, has only been in the CIO role since December 2011 but she has already overseen a refresh of the Brisbane-based furniture retailer's website and signed a $3.6 million managed services contract with Brennan IT which includes servers, a private IP network linking 40 sites and managed print services (MPS).

• EU releases guide for improving security in cloud contracts

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 04 April, 2012 00:41

  Users need to become better at asking cloud providers questions about the finer points of availability and vulnerability management in contracts, according to a new guide from the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA).

• Amazon expands cloud-based live streaming functionality

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 02 April, 2012 22:43

  Amazon has added the ability for CloudFront to stream live content to Apple iOS devices and Microsoft Silverlight clients, the company said in a blog post on Sunday.

• Enterprises look for help managing security logs

  By Ellen Messmer | 22 January, 2010 08:05

  Managed security services have been growing in popularity over the past several years, and the latest task enterprises are looking to offload to an outside provider is security information management.

• ANZ to Spend $500m on Managed Network and Services

  By Tim Lohman | 05 May, 2009 10:04

  Singtel-owned telco Optus is provide telecommunications and managed networks service to the ANZ bank under a new $500 million, five year contract.

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