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By Paris Cowan

May 27 2014 12:35PM

Rules out offshore hosting for classified data.

Qld orders agencies to buy cloud as default

Queensland agencies will be asked to justify any non-cloud IT purchases going forward, under a new policy that will see cloud solutions formally preferenced ahead of on-premise competitors in government tenders. The policy makes Queensland the first Australian government to take the plunge and ...

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