At a time when banks are shedding IT roles by the dozen, it seems counter-intuitive that 83 per cent of the nation’s chief information officers should report they are confident about the future of their business to the extent that 45 per cent expect to hire IT staff in the first six months of the year. The question remains – is this a dead cat bounce?
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Renai LeMay
Thursday, 09 September 2010 11:45
Online real estate giant REA Group has migrated its in-house staff email system to Telstra’s T-Suite platform, purchasing 750 Exchange Online accounts in what Telstra said was its biggest T-Suite cloud computing deal so far.
“The deal is the largest since T-Suite was launched in April 2009 and links REA Group staff across four countries — Australia, Italy, Luxembourg and Hong Kong,” said a Telstra statement issued late yesterday.
REA Group chief information officer Daniel Oertli said that moving infrastructure into the cloud was consistent with REA’s strategy of focusing on the competitive edge. “We were running an outmoded corporate email system,” he said. “Taking advantage of the resilience, cost efficiencies and managed convenience offered by Microsoft Exchange Online through T-Suite made much more sense.”
Oertli was not immediately available to comment on what system REA Group was using previously but it’s understood the company was at least partially using a self-hosted version of Exchange.
REA operates the realestate.com.au family of websites which also includes sites overseas — globally the company’s properties pull in some 6.8 million unique browsers each month (based on August traffic).
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