Today’s business leaders are seeking answers to questions such as what technology to invest in, who to work with and what technologies will help reshape their industry and operating model over the next 10 years. In this session, industry experts Byron Connolly, Editor-in-Chief of CIO of IDG, and Tech Research Asia’s Tim Dillon, will together discuss the important role Cloud plays in the current state of Australia’s business landscape and to the next-wave technologies such as IOT, Robotics, ML and AI, which are reshaping industries and business sooner than predicted. Speakers: Byron Connolly, Editor-in-Chief of CIO, IDG Tim Dillon, Tech Research Asia

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A Perspective on the Cloud and
Technology Trends in A/NZ
Byron Connolly
Editor-in-Chief, CIO Australia
Tim Dillon
Founder and Director, Tech Research Asia
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2. • Public cloud services spending in Australia reached $5.55B by the end of 2016 (14.4% growth)
• Spending across Asia-Pacific (including A/NZ) is forecast to grow 17.7 per cent to total $10B – rising
to $13.6 billion by 2019
• Highest growth in the mature A-Pac market from SaaS (projected 28.5% in 2017) and PaaS (26.7 per
cent this year)
• More than half of Australian CIOs are planning to invest more in IaaS by the end of 2017.
Sources: Gartner and Telsyte
How big is the public cloud market?

3. Organisations are increasingly adopting ‘cloud-first’ strategies to:
• Modernise their IT infrastructure to support digital transformation initiatives
• Provide more flexible and agile technology services that can be switched on and off as required
• Move from a capital to operational expenditure model to cut costs.
What’s driving uptake?

4. • Tabcorp has a cloud-first strategy
• Running tin on-premise no longer cutting it
• Need to create infrastructure on the run
• 50M transactions processed on Melbourne Cup Day (2013)
• Push to change regulations around hardware
The private sector –
organisations love public cloud

5. • Orion Health in New Zealand has migrated its Amadeus precision medicine platform to AWS
spanning over 110 million patient records globally
• Migration to AWS Cloud provides advanced security, data privacy, higher availability and machine
learning – critical when managing and interpreting vast amounts of health information
The private sector –
organisations love public cloud

6. • The federal government should follow other sectors like banking
and adopt a cloud-first policy for all low risk, generic IT services.
National Commission of Audit (May 2014)
• Only 0.5% of federal government IT spend goes to
public cloud providers ($60M)
• $700M spent each year on hardware.
The public sector – a very different story

7. • Australian companies – Vault Systems and Sliced Tech – are the first cloud providers to have their
services approved by the Australian Signals Directorate’s CCSL program for use with classified
government information
• Some agencies – the Digital Transformation Agency and the Department of the Prime Minister and
Cabinet – are in the process of moving to or are already using public cloud services
• Australia Post and the Australian Taxation Office are also interesting use cases
The public sector – a very different story

8. Cloud integration
The biggest issues/ challenges
• Integrating SaaS apps with existing on
premise software is vital – could mean the
difference between the success or failure of
a cloud project
• Within three years, most enterprises will
have externalised between 15 and 27
services that they would have normally
consumed on-premise
Change in skill base
• Move to cloud changes the way IT
departments operate
• News Corp’s moved 75 per cent of its compute
into the cloud by the end of 2015
• This required new IT skills and retraining of staff

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Tim Dillon
Founder and Director, Tech Research Asia
The Fourth Wave of
Business Technology

11. The Great Decoupling
When Workers Began Falling Behind
Until the 1980’s labour productivity, real GDP per capita,
private employment, and median family income all rose in
tandem in the US. Then media income started to trail, and
around 2000 job growth slowed.

12. Some examples of what’s coming next

15. Some closing thoughts
 How can an organisation achieve agility, flexibility and innovation in
a disruptive world? If you’re not future readying your infrastructure now,
in the future will be too late.
 It’s no longer about devices but rather the data, information and
intelligence that flows across, around and through them
 Connectivity is not just about people –
p2p, m2m, m2p, IoT2e(verything)
 Data storage? Got a LOT of it? How easily can you access it?
 Think security and GRC is complex now? Hah. Just wait.

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17. Thank you!
tim@techresearch.asia
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