Through the OpenStack Cloud Passport program, users can now trial multiple cloud providers around the world, including New Zealand own Catalyst Cloud.

Catalyst announced today that the Catalyst Cloud will now be managed by Catalyst Cloud Ltd, part of the wider Catalyst IT Group.

To provide clarity and assurance to agencies, Catalyst contacted DIA to delineate the scope of the mandate and its exceptions.

The Catalyst Cloud now offers large compute instances for big data and visual effects rendering jobs.

It's now even cheaper to use block storage on the Catalyst Cloud. The price for block storage has been reduced by 25%, from $0.40 per GB a month to $0.30 per GB a month.

Catalyst is announcing the introduction of all-of-government cloud pricing to enable the New Zealand government to successfully implement its Cloud First policy using onshore cloud services.

The Catalyst Cloud continues to grow, opening a third region in Hamilton to complement the existing regions in Porirua and Wellington.

Catalyst and REANNZ are proud to announce that the Catalyst Cloud is now available to all members of the REANNZ network for their research needs.

The service replicates your objects asynchronously between regions, making it easier for you to make backups, disaster recovery and run web applications in active/active mode.

Catalyst would like to offer free emergency cloud compute capacity to New Zealand companies affected by the earthquake that need help to get any of their damaged systems back up and running again.