Optus ups cloud capability with Microsoft partnership

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Leon Spencer.

Optus Business customers will have access to Microsoft Azure-enabled cloud services, with the Australian telco becoming a partner of Microsoft’s Cloud OS Network. The Singtel subsidiary claimed on Monday that the partnership would see it become the first Australian network service provider to partner locally with Microsoft for its Cloud OS Network, which claims Rackspace and Cisco among its global partners.

The software giant announced its Cloud OS Network in late 2013, when it formalised an initial 25 partnerships with cloud service providers globally, including Aruba, Fujitsu, Lenovo, and Optus Singapore-based parent company Singtel. "Through this partnership with Microsoft, Optus can now deliver solutions based on the Microsoft Cloud Platform designed to meet enterprise customers’ hybrid computing needs," said Microsoft Australia managing director Pip Marlow…

"Optus can offer customers more flexibility and control when it comes to managing the cloud environments."…

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