The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
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Beverley Head
Wednesday, 10 February 2010 18:01
Curtin University is one of a handful of organisations now beta testing Optus Business’ cloud based solution planned for public release later this year.
With the Optus cloud based on technology from the Virtual Computing Environment Alliance, formed by Cisco, VMware and EMC, the university has also used Cisco gear in its core network in preparation for connection to Optus’ cloud.
It has, with the support of AlphaWest, installed two Cisco Unified Computer Services systems with eight blades apiece in Curtin’s core network. These were the first Cisco UCS devices deployed in Australia.
Eventually the plan is to connect Curtin’s core network to the cloud using the Optus Evolve IP network.
Curtin CIO Peter Nikoletatos said at a briefing today that he was keen to perform an “evidence based” analysis of the cloud offering which would inform his decision about which of the university’s 170 plus applications should migrate to the Optus cloud.
Admitting that a potentially sensitive migration of student information was “some time off,” Nikoletatos added that “research might be one of the last things we take off campus – but there are a lot of corporate data sets ripe to move.”
Scott Mason, director enterprise fixed marketing for Optus, said that the company hoped to make the cloud service commercially available in 2010 following the beta testing currently underway with 5-10 organisations.
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