Telstra's Indian joint venture, Telstra Telecommunications Private Limited (TTPL) has finally been awarded licences to provide customers in India with international and national long-distance telecommunications and Internet services, but is it now entering the market three years behind major global telcos like BT & AT&T.

After three months’ analysis of the 115 organisations which claim to provide enterprise grade, or trusted, infrastructure cloud computing services in Australia the top seven suppliers have been named by research organisation Longhaus. The envelope please…

Verizon Business is undergoing an enhancement of its data centres around the world, including Australia, in a move the company says is aimed at meeting the increasing demand for the full range of cloud services and to bring it a step closer to achieving its “everything-as-a-service” (EaaS) vision of offering cloud-based solutions on an as-needed basis to enterprises globally.

Verizon Business has introduced Verizon Cloud Storage and a complementary suite of data-retention IT consulting services.

Verizon Business has unveiled a service designed to cut international mobile roaming costs for multinationals by using fixed-mobile convergence technologies and VoIP services.

The need to integrate mainstream enterprise applications such as ERP and CRM with unified communications services and make them accessible from any device, anywhere will drive all these applications into the cloud over the next few years, according to Verizon Business' UC practice manager, Ben Green.

Verizon business, which started life four years ago as a provider of communications services to multinationals, is refocussing its business around the mantra of "everything in the cloud".

PC technical support services provider iYogi, has contracted Verizon Business to help it deliver its remote customer service to a rapidly growing customer base.

A six figure investment in unified communications which allowed healthcare solutions company iSOFT to cut a key travel budget by 70 per cent is about to be leveraged with the company pledging to provide tech-support for “prestige clients” via videoconference.

AT&T has launched, globally, a cloud computing service designed to "give companies of all sizes simple on-demand access to scalable computing capacity."