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• Google offers IBM AS/400 apps new home in its cloud

  Search giant follows Microsoft in offering route to legacy workload modernisation via new Power Systems service in Google Cloud Platform.

• Open source has never been stronger

  With cloud companies open-sourcing their innovations, and enterprises increasing participation, open source sustainability is at an all-time high.

• Google Cloud to offer VMware data centre tools natively

  Google is enlisting VMware and CloudSimple to serve up vSphere, NSX and vSAN software on Google Cloud to transition enterprise workloads.

• Public cloud winners take all

  It’s earnings season for the public cloud vendors and the chatter over who’s winning is heating up.

• Volt gets full banking licence

  The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has today granted ‘challenger bank’ Volt a licence to operate as an authorised deposit-taking institution (ADI).

• Google cleared to handle Australian Government data

  Google's cloud has been added to the Australian Cyber Security Centre Certified Cloud Services List.

• ANZ picks Google Cloud to speed up banker insights

  ANZ bankers can now get instant data insights with a cloud analytics platform from Google Cloud.

• How Spotify migrated everything from on-premise to Google Cloud Platform

  The Swedish music streaming company has already shut down two data centres as it migrates everything to Google Cloud Platform.

• 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.

• AWS and Microsoft combine to drive deep learning in the cloud

  An AWS and Microsoft joint effort makes neural networks easier to program and use with the MXNet and Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit frameworks.

• Google taps Telstra enterprise expertise to lead A/NZ cloud charge

  Colin Timm has been named as the new director of Google Cloud in A/NZ, tasked with driving enterprise cloud adoption.

• Google opens Sydney cloud region

  Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure now have a new competitor in Australia – a ‘three zone’ Google Cloud Platform region in Sydney has finally landed.

• 4 ways Google Cloud will bring AI, machine learning to the enterprise

  The mystery of why Stanford’s renowned head of AI research, Fei-Fei Li, joined Google finally answered.

• ​Google Cloud acquires Australian-born data science outfit Kaggle

  Google has acquired Kaggle, a data science platform originally started in Australia by federal government economist and Melbourne university student, Anthony Goldbloom.

• Google cuts cloud prices by 30 per cent

  Google has announced its latest round of price cuts for its cloud computing platform, now 30 per cent cheaper than previous offerings, and 40 per cent less expensive than competing services for many workloads, the company claimed.