An Australian cloud computing trailblazer says New Zealand is in real danger of giving away its capabilities to big foreign firms.
Giant US companies in particular are doing well from the government's policy to shift public data to the cloud, and to support them building large data centres here.
Australia is more reluctant to pass its public data over this way, but faces similar pressures.
Rupert Taylor-Price who heads Canberra's Vault Cloud is among those pushing back, and starting to win.
