Telstra to build new Melbourne DC as part of Cloud services push

Telstra's chief operations officer, Brendon Riley, said the company's objective is to have the biggest network integration of Cloud in Australia.

"With this Cloud computing platform we can provide Cloud services that are integrated into our networks, which means they are secure, monitored and can be accessed in more locations across the country."

Telstra's announcement has been brewing for a during, when in May 2011 its chief research officer, Hugh Barlow, urged businesses to outsource their IT functions to Cloud operators in order to get with the 21st Century and reduce overall costs.

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Telstra CEO says he can't comment on NBN

Telstra Corporation Ltd chief executive David Thodey says he's staying mute on the national broadband network, amid reports the telco and government are close to a deal.

Speaking at a media briefing on Telstra's new investment in cloud computing on Thursday, he told reporters he would not respond to questions about the NBN.

On June 20, 2010, Telstra and the government-funded company charged with building and operating the network, NBN Co, signed a non-binding heads of agreement.

Meanwhile, the telco announced it would spend $800 million over the at once five years to expand its cloud computing business to support growing demand.

Cloud computing allows companies to lease computing resources just as memory capacity and processing power from external providers.

Mr Thodey said he hoped Telstra's new revenue streams would represent between 25 to 30 per cent of total revenue over the at once three to five years.

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Telstra plugs $800m into cloud offering

"Telcos, like IT providers, have to run at a very high availability," he said. "When you start looking at shared infrastructure for computing ... that's why a telco, it's just in our DNA. It's just part of what we do, it's all about managing risk."

Josh Gibbons, CIO with wine company Australian Vintage, took on Telstra's infrastructure-as-a-service offering when the company moved to a new office before this year, and said that the move into the cloud environment has allowed the company to reinvest IT resources into other areas just as Voice-over-IP programs and desktop virtualisation, nevertheless has as well saved the company money.

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Telstra opens up second release NBN sites

The second release sites comprise an additional 19 locations - 14 new locations, and five locations next to the existing NBN first release rollout zones - where the fibre network will be rolled out straightway around the nation, ranging from Brisbane to Casuarina in the Northern Territory and the broadband-starved suburb of Gungahlin in the ACT.
Government incentives and pent-up demand following the global financial crisis helped the Australian video conferencing market to increase earnings by 33 per cent in 2010.
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