Telstra Private Cloud expands to Melbourne

Telstra Purple has expanded the availability of its Telstra Private Cloud service to Melbourne as an additional availability zone.

First launched from Sydney in March, the Telstra Private Cloud Service will now enable customers to purchase a virtual data centre in either or both availability zones.

The virtual data centres are built on dedicated infrastructure owned and hosted in Australia, based on Dell’s APEX Data Centre Utility solution and VMWare as the virtualisation layer. The service includes in-built security, compliance and networking functionality.

According to Telstra Group Owner for Edge and Cloud Angela Logothetis, the service is designed to deliver the best of both worlds, with the speed of deployment and flexibility of a public cloud and the more predictable cost and performance of a private cloud. It forms part of Telstra’s evolving Hybrid Cloud ecosystem.

“As Australian organisations continue their adoption of cloud technology, we see increasing sophistication in their cloud needs. Our customers are asking Telstra for public cloud, hybrid cloud, multi-cloud and Edge solutions. While virtualised workloads drove the initial demand for Private Cloud, increasingly we see organisations looking to Private Cloud and Edge for cloud sovereignty and data cloud capabilities,” she said.

“Through the combination of Dell’s infrastructure leadership and Telstra’s Adaptive Networks, we are bringing to market a unique solution for local businesses, providing the confidence and control needed to innovate while allowing customers to pay only for what they use.”

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