Growing Demand Heats Up Australian Cloud Market
According to the latest ISG Provider Lens™ report, Australian enterprises are increasingly adopting private and hybrid cloud solutions to accelerate digital transformation, driven by sustainability, automation demands, and COVID-19 impacts. The report highlights the competitive nature of the Australian cloud market and notes significant infrastructure growth beyond major cities. It emphasizes the urgent need for companies to invest in automation to address the IT skills shortage, while also focusing on sustainability. Telstra is recognized as a leader in all service quadrants.
- Growing demand for hybrid IT, colocation, and managed hosting services fueled by digital transformation.
- Australia's cloud market is highly competitive, prompting providers to enhance service offerings.
- Investment in sustainable data center solutions is increasing, aligning with government objectives.
- Severe shortage of IT and cloud-skilled professionals hampers growth.
- Pandemic effects have disrupted supply chains and customer behaviors, affecting business agility.
More companies are adopting private/hybrid clouds as they accelerate digitalization, automation and sustainability drives, ISG Provider Lens™ report says
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“Australia is arguably the most competitive cloud services market in the world,” said
The Australian data center landscape has grown beyond its traditional hubs in
The effects of the pandemic on customer behavior, supply chains and other aspects of business have sharpened Australian companies’ need for data center solutions to make them truly digital. This trend will continue because the road to digitalization is a “one-way street,” the report says.
Data centers are also at the center of Australia’s increasing trend toward sustainability, which is fueling a move to greener data center locations, energy systems and management, ISG says. Sustainability is a major objective for both enterprises and state governments, and the recently elected national government is likely to increase sustainability requirements. Enterprises are seeking cloud providers that share their green goals.
Like many countries,
“Australian companies need to invest more in automation to have even a remote chance of meeting the skills gap,” said
The report covers a wide range of cloud-related trends in
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The report names Telstra as a Leader in all three quadrants. It names Fujitsu and Kyndryl as Leaders in two quadrants each. Accenture, Datacom, Digital Realty, Equinox, HCL, Infosys, Macquarie Telecom, NEXTDC, NTT DATA,
In addition, CDC Data Centres, Datacom and Rackspace Technology are named as Rising Stars — companies with a “promising portfolio” and “high future potential” by ISG’s definition — in one quadrant each.
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