Telstra joins IaaS market

Stephen Withers
Wednesday, 09 November 2011 15:30

Telstra is offering virtual servers to large and small businesses from $200 per month, claiming the potential to save SMEs thousands of dollars.

Telstra has had a SaaS offering (T-Suite) for some time, and is now moving into the IaaS space with Windows or Linux-based virtual servers. For convenience, the charges can be added to a Telstra bill.

Company officials say Telstra Cloud Services runs on enterprise-grade hardware from Cisco, VMware and EMC.

Five plans are available, ranging from $200 per month to $4000. The more you pay, the more CPUs, RAM, storage and Internet traffic are available to you. The base plan provides 2 CPUs, 4GB of RAM (which can be configured as one virtual server with two CPUs, or two servers with one CPU), 100GB of storage and 40GB of Internet traffic (inbound and outbound combined). At the top end, it's 32 CPUs, 64GB RAM, 3360GB storage, and 2TB Internet traffic.

There's also a pay-as-you-go option, with prices starting at $0.05 for one CPU and 1GB RAM, $0.0003 per GB-hour for storage, and $1 per terabyte of Internet traffic.

A range of options are offered, including software (eg, SQL Server 2008 R2 from $0.75 per server per hour), mail relaying (starting at $0.0015 per email), VLANs ($200 setup fee, but no ongoing charges), firewall tiers ($0.06 per hour after a $50 setup fee), and a bulk data import service ($250 per drive plus $0.05c per gigabyte).

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