Cloud adoption grew within Australian organisations throughout 2015, and this growth is set to continue in 2016, with industry analyst Telsyte predicting expansion within the local cloud market. This uptake in adoption is being driven by both traditional IT pressures and emerging technology. Cost reduction, time-to-market, scalability are ongoing traditional IT pressures CIOs face and this is being compounded by emerging workloads like Big Data analytics, the Internet of Things and personal apps in the workplace.