SYDNEY: Optus has disclosed its cloud strategy for enterprise and government customers across Australia and APAC and a strengthened partnership with Microsoft and other tech giants.
Optus Business managing director John Paitaridis used the Optus Vision event in Sydney this week to outline the new strategy, which he said would provide customers with access to expert advice from one provider spanning Infrastructure, Software and Network-as-a-service.
The firm said it had added Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute functionality, allowing for private, high-speed connections to the Azure cloud platform.
“We have responded to customer demands and aligned our approach to investment, partnerships, innovation and strategy to enable us to be the partner of choice for Australian businesses wanting greater flexibility in their cloud deployments,” Mr Paitaridis said.
“Optus is making it easier for businesses to innovate, unencumbered by the complexity of legacy technology. We can now navigate customers across on-premise, private, hybrid and public cloud, removing the complexity of Cloud for customers through our managed capability and expertise.”
Optus’ cloud capabilities were strengthened recently by the acquisition of IT professional and managed services company Ensyst, which it picked up for $13m.
Mr Paitaridis said that Optus has worked with parent Singtel and affiliates to build Points of Presence throughout Asia Pacific.
“Optus can offer its customers a true end-to-end infrastructure and established regional offering for Australian businesses operating, or looking to invest in, the region,” he said.
“As part of the cloud strategy, Optus customers have access to a superior network experience via a secure managed link to Amazon Web Services, allowing them to connect directly to Amazon instead of connecting via the internet.
“Additionally, Optus now offers customers the ability to ‘burst’ their network capacity across multiple cloud environments quickly and cost-effectively through Optus subsidiary Uecomm’s shared fibre network, linking major data centres in NSW and Victoria to their customer sites and to one another.
Optus’ business arm joined Microsoft’s Cloud OS network in April.
And in March Optus announced its acceptance to the Cisco Intercloud Provider network, leveraging Intercloud technologies to provide customers with the ability to manage and access their workloads across multiple private and public clouds.
