OPTUS BUSINESS DOUBLES UP ON NEW CLOUD OPPORTUNITIES
Confirms Cisco Intercloud partnership; joins Government Cloud Services Panel.
Optus Business has announced it will become an Intercloud provider leveraging Cisco Intercloud technologies, while also confirming it is one of the first major telco and ICT providers to join the Federal Government’s Cloud Services Provider’s panel. Intercloud Provider Cisco Intercloud technology will provide Optus customers with the ability to manage and access their workloads across multiple private and public clouds in a diverse environment, whilst giving customers choice and flexibility to place their workloads where it benefits the most and according to a technical or business need. Optus Business Managing Director John Paitaridis said, “Like all businesses, our customers are focused on improving efficiency and productivity. They don’t want to be locked in to an off–the-shelf cloud service. They want flexibility to adopt a tailored cloud strategy specific to their business needs,” “By being a part of the Intercloud, our customers can now instigate a cloud workload strategy that works for them without multiple vendor management or security concerns,” he said. Mr Paitaridis said the move extends Optus Business’ end-to-end ICT offerings and best-of-breed networking service capabilities to provide customers a single-service ICT provider. “Today’s announcement forms a part of our broader Cloud and Data Centre strategy, with this being the first of several announcements Optus Business will make in the next few months.” Jonathon Dixon, Director Global Service Provider, Cisco Australia said, “Optus Business has always been a strong partner of Cisco in Australia. By becoming an Intercloud provider Optus Business will be well placed to manage the ever increasing cloud service demands of their customers.” Joining Government Cloud Panel Separately, Mr Paitaridis said Optus Business had also joined the Federal Government’s Cloud Services Provider's panel. The panel is the main vehicle to increase uptake of cloud services and enable Government to deliver services more efficiently, as well as provide services that are more responsive to business and community needs. Mr Paitaridis said, “Optus Business is pleased to confirm our inclusion on the panel. “Our addition to the panel is a demonstration of the strength of our Cloud capability, that enables customers, such as large Government organisations and agencies, to deliver more efficient and responsive services to citizens or their own customers.” The scope of the Cloud Panel Services to be provided by Optus Business includes:- Infrastructure-as-a-Service (Compute and Storage)
- Software-as-a-Service (Managed Lync and Unified Communications as-a-Service)
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