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• Profitable future for data centre services market: report

  The Australian data centre services market is forecast to hit revenues of over $1.5 billion by 2019, according to a new report by Frost & Sullivan.

• Newvem expands to monitor Azure and Amazon clouds

  Newvem, which sells a tool that allows users to track and optimize their use of cloud computing resources, has expanded its software's functionality to monitor not just Amazon Web Services, but now Microsoft Azure now as well.

• Amazon may be working on a smartphone with hologram-like 3D

  Amazon is reportedly developing a smartphone that sports a 3D screen that relies on retina-tracking technology to make images seem to float above the screen like a hologram.

• Lessons learnt: Building scalability and resilience in the cloud

  Freelancer.com is an online outsourcing marketplace. Almost from its founding in 2009, the company has relied on Amazon's public cloud to deliver infrastructure-as-a-service.

• How Freelancer.com used cloud to architect for growth

  When Freelancer.com launched in 2009, CEO Matt Barrie and his team knew the audience for the online outsourcing marketplace was big. And it was only going to grow. The market opportunity was "going to be phenomenally huge," says David Harrison, the company's vice-president of engineering.

• London Gatwick Airport takes out 200 servers, moves to cloud, BYOD

  Cloud computing and a "bring your own device" (BYOD) strategy aren't technology approaches typically associated with running an airport's information-technology operations. But London Gatwick, the U.K.'s second largest airport, is pushing heavily into both.

• Wall Street Beat: Earnings highlight smartphones as key to growth

  With Apple reporting a decline in profit margins and Samsung consolidating its leadership in the mobile device market, earnings results and market research reports this week point to the ever-increasing importance of smartphones as key to growth in tech.

• Amazon launches local cloud support operation

  Amazon Web Services today launched its Sydney-based technical support centre. AWS flagged the opening of a technical support operation last year, when it launched the Sydney infrastructure region for its cloud computing services.

• RedBalloon eyes cloud-based data warehouse

  Online gift voucher retailer RedBalloon plans to employ cloud-based data warehousing to store and analyse data generated by its customers.

• Infor partnering with Amazon on Redshift-powered cloud analytics platform

  Infor is planning to offer customers a cloud-based data warehouse and analytics platform based on its own ION and Business Vault technology as well as Amazon's Redshift service.

• Former Microsoft man building 'something secret' at Amazon

  The former general manager of Microsoft's Windows Phone developer platform started a new job at Amazon on Monday, leading a team that's working in a new area for the company.

• Amazon to acquire Goodreads book recommendation site

  Amazon.com will acquire Goodreads, a website that recommends books.

• Amazon to acquire Goodreads book recommendation site

  Amazon.com will acquire Goodreads, a website that recommends books.

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  RedBalloon floats into the cloud with Amazon

  Website crashes are a thing of the past for ecommerce website RedBalloon since a migration into Amazon Web Service’s cloud took place in early 2012.

• Etsy gets crafty with big data

  Handmade marketplace Etsy has grown to 800,000 sellers and 40+ million monthly visitors. All that activity generates enormous quantities of data, which Etsy uses to drive site improvements.