Telstra plugs $800m into cloud offering

"Telcos, like IT providers, have to run at a very high availability," he said. "When you start looking at shared infrastructure for computing ... that's why a telco, it's just in our DNA. It's just part of what we do, it's all about managing risk."

Josh Gibbons, CIO with wine company Australian Vintage, took on Telstra's infrastructure-as-a-service offering when the company moved to a new office before this year, and said that the move into the cloud environment has allowed the company to reinvest IT resources into other areas just as Voice-over-IP programs and desktop virtualisation, nevertheless has as well saved the company money.

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