Telstra has announced the next stage of its $800 million cloud computing investment strategy, outlining a  new Cloud Services portal making virtual servers more easily available and affordable.

 

Telstra Business Group Managing Director Will Irving said the online ordering tool would be marketed to both big and small firms, with pricing and functionality aimed squarely at driving cloud take-up and productivity in Australia’s huge base of small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

 

“Telstra’s multi-million dollar investment in cloud services is money businesses themselves don’t need to invest upfront on IT, so they can put it to good use elsewhere to help them grow,” Mr Irving said.

 

“Because it provides computing resources on demand, businesses no longer need to own a physical server and can just rent space as they require it."

 

Mr Irving said the new Cloud Services portal, cloud.telstra.com complemented Telstra’s fast-growing T-Suite cloud software portal.

 

“Just as T-Suite has made cloud software easy for Australian SMEs, this is yet another way to access a productivity tool already used widely by big business,” Mr Irving said.