Qld orders agencies to buy cloud as default

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Qld orders agencies to buy cloud as default

Rules out offshore hosting for classified data.

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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