Telstra has partnered with VMWare to deploy and host VMware’s cloud service for Australian customers.
The move is also expected to allow Telstra’s connected data center customers to extend or move their on-premise IT infrastructure seamlessly to a public cloud.
Erez Yarkoni, executive director cloud, Telstra Global Enterprise and Services, said the decision to host and deploy vCloud Air will give customers more options as they connect to and leverage the cloud.
“We have seen strong uptake in Australia of public cloud services. However, we are also seeing increasing interest from customers to identify different cloud strategies appropriate to their individual business needs. We are providing our customers with solutions that enabled multi cloud-environments, so they can optimize performance, cost and flexibility across multiple applications and workloads,” Yarkoni said.
VMware vCloud Air is built on VMware vSphere and offers two distinct infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) compute offerings - Dedicated Cloud and Virtual Private Cloud. It is designed to offer market leading hybrid cloud solutions, whether a customer wants to extend an on-premise data center to create a hybrid cloud environment or start a new public cloud deployment.
The service is expected to be available in first half of 2015.