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Good afternoon,

Today iTnews gets a refreshing and frank assessment on cloud computing by the IT manager of Australian Rugby.

The football code put out a tender earlier this year in the hope of migrating to a more elastic or utility-style computing environment, but has found the local cloud computing market lacking in maturity.

-- Brett Winterford

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