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• The cost and paradoxes of cloud

  The world’s top 50 software vendors are losing as much as US$100 billion in market value by using hosted cloud infrastructure, according to VC powerhouse Andreessen Horowitz.

• Public clouds and big tech target low-code capabilities

  Big players are joining the low-code game, offering platforms to help developers and amateurs create apps for everything imaginable.

• Where CIOs should look for cost savings in the cloud

  The potential to save money is by no means the only reason for moving to the cloud.

• Big 4 dominate expanding public cloud market

  AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud and Alibaba Cloud accounted for 72 per cent of public cloud services revenue during the third quarter of 2019.

• Public cloud spending rises as Asian security concerns wane

  Spending on public cloud services and infrastructure across Asia Pacific is forecast to reach US$26 billion in 2019.

• Services surge amid public cloud growth

  The public cloud services market experienced worldwide growth of 27.4 per cent year-over-year in 2018, significantly outpacing the IT industry.

• OVH expands public cloud services through Singapore

  OVH is set for global expansion of its public cloud service through two additional Asia Pacific data centres, located in Singapore and Sydney.

• Hyper-converged vendors prospering through private cloud adoption

  Lenovo, Dell EMC and Hewlett Packard Enterprise expected to capitalise as hyper-converged infrastructure investments increase.

• Partners ready as public cloud services market hits $117B

  The worldwide public cloud services market grew 29 per cent in 2017, with customers spending US$117 billion in the space of 12 months.

• White label infrastructure makers eat into tech giants’ public cloud market share

  Original design manufacturers’ public cloud hardware and software offering is eating into the market share of vendors such as Dell EMC and HPE.

• Enterprise to benefit as Singtel strikes digital transformation deal with VMware

  Singtel and VMware sign memorandum of understanding to jointly provide solutions to accelerate digital transformation across the Asia Pacific region.

• VMware tackles complexity of multi-cloud environments

  VMware expands portfolio of cloud tools to help enterprises improve the manageability of their public cloud and on-premises environments.

• Is Microsoft Azure really making up ground on AWS?

  Both Microsoft and AWS reported impressive cloud revenue figures to start 2018, with Redmond boasting nearly double the year-on-year growth of biggest rival.

• AWS released 497 new services and features last quarter

  AWS released almost 500 new services and features over 12 weeks amid continuing efforts to ​maintain its top spot in the market.

• If hackers shut down AWS, Microsoft or Google, business losses could hit $19B

  A cyber problem that temporary shuts down a top U.S. cloud computing provider could trigger as much as US$19 billion in business losses.