OzTech Roundup is Computerworld Australia’s weekly look at the world of IT. Getty Images/IDG Australia to spend $10.6 billion on the public cloud in 2021 New forecast from research firm Gartner has predicted Australian organisations will spend $10.6 billion on public cloud services in 2021. This represents an 18.4% increase from 2020, when spending on public cloud reached $8.9 billion. “Emerging technologies such as containerisation, desktop as a service, and edge computing are becoming more mainstream and driving additional cloud spending. And hyperscale public cloud services have proven their underlying scalability and elasticity. This has led to stronger forecasts for cloud adoption in coming years,” said Michael Warrilow, a research vice president at Gartner.