AUSTRALIA is gearing up to be the battleground for cloud computing supremacy among the world's largest computing players with Oracle global president Mark Hurd boldly pledging to make "heavy" investments locally to achieve pole position.
Organisations pay for cloud computing services on a monthly basis and don't have to fork out large sums of capital to buy hardware or software outright.
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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/cloud-computing/oracle-keen-to-reign-in-the-cloud/story-fn8lu7wm-1226558503529