Telstra will invest more than AUD 800 million in cloud computing over the next five years. The expenditure will be within the company’s 14 percent capital expenditure to sales ratio and will include the building of a new data centre, modernising facilities at existing Telstra data centres, expanding the range of enterprise applications, a new integrated online account management portal, increased automation of utility computing services, and enhanced T-Suite capabilities and new applications. Telstra has partnered with leading cloud technology vendors Cisco, VMware and its integration and go to market partner Accenture, to build the next phase of its integrated cloud platform as well as using cloud technology partners such as Microsoft to deliver cloud services.
As part of the announcement, Telstra also unveiled more corporate customers who use Telstra cloud computing including Australian Vintage, The Salvation Army Employment Plus, Oz Minerals, Tabcorp, and Tristar Medical Group. Sales of the company’s T-Suite software-as-a-service have grown threefold for the past year and use of the infrastructure cloud has increased by nearly 50 percent this year. Telstra said it is also experiencing strong sales in its cloud voice and video services, which are exceeding 80 percent per year and it now manages more than 100,000 IP telephony services delivered from the cloud.
