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• Rackspace and HPE offer public cloud-style pricing for private cloud

  Rackspace has partnered with HP Enterprise to offer pay-as-you-go private cloud services based on OpenStack.

• Spark taps Nokia for core network upgrade

  Spark is to upgrade its core infrastructure under a three-year strategic partnership with Nokia that will include the supply by Nokia of its 7250 Interconnect Router R6 (IXR-R6) to “address capacity and embrace architectural evolution on the path to 5G, ultra-broadband and IoT,” according to Nokia.

• vGRID first in NZ to deploy HPE Synergy ‘composable infrastructure’

  ​vGRID, a New Zealand based SaaS and IaaS provider focussed on the small to medium business market, has moved from its datacentre at Waikato Innovation Park into Datacom’s Kapua data centre and has become the first company in New Zealand to deploy HPE’s Synergy product, claimed by HPE to embody a new architecture that it calls ‘composable infrastructure’.

• Vodafone, Spark and 2Degrees Join Forces to Boost Rural Communications

  ​Vodafone, Spark and 2degrees have made a submission to the Government proposing to use the recently announced Rural Broadband Initiative Extension (RBI2) and Mobile Black Spot Fund to improve rural broadband and mobile infrastructure.

• Inside Xero’s mammoth cloud migration

  When Xero announced in November that it had completed its shift to a public cloud platform, the accounting software-as-a-service provider claimed that it was one of the largest migrations of its kind to be attempted in Australia and New Zealand.

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