Telstra aims big with Cisco cloud team-up
March 18, 2014
Grazed from Business. Author: Editorial Staff.
Telstra and Cisco have cooked up a grandstand cloud computing deal with the telco becoming the first to jump in and develop cloud infrastructure in conjunction with the global giant. The partnership will see Cisco bring a local node of its global cloud platform into Telstra’s data centres and oversee management and operations
It substantially increases the scale of Telstra’s cloud offering as it leverages Cisco’s platform, rather than starting from scratch, to keep the likes of Amazon Web Services and Dimension Data at bay. According to Telstra, the co-build infrastructure will provide cloud and network services in real-time, providing greater speed, security and performance…
Telstra is also investing in Cisco Evolved Services Platform for its networking infrastructure. The telco’s global enterprise & services, executive director for the cloud, Erez Yarkoni said the intelligent network enabled cloud developed with Cisco provides more value and choice to Telstra’s customers…
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