Amcom Telecommunications (ASX:AMM) has penned a three-year $9 million contract to provide hosted Cloud services to the University of Western Australia (UWA). Under the terms of the deal, Amcom will host UWA’s Cloud services out of its Perth-based data centres and will provide “hundreds” of servers with over 400 Terabytes (TB) of storage delivered over Amcom’s ten Gigabit fibre network. In a statement to the ASX, UWA director of information management, Mary Davies, said the Cloud services would underpin how the university would provide students, academics and researchers with the computing power and storage needed in coming years. “Amcom has been able to provide us with a cost effective, secure, reliable and dedicated product that gives us capacity and capability across all faculties,” she said. “It is both simple for us to manage and user friendly for our staff.” “Amcom is ready to deliver the hosted services we require now, and most important our data is stored in Perth using dedicated infrastructure (single tenant) under a private hosted services agreement.” Amcom joins a host of telcos offering Cloud services with Telstra, Optus and Macquarie Telecom making investments in the Cloud space. However, as telcos increasingly jump on the Cloud bandwagon their platforms have raised questions around what exactly they can offer in comparison with more traditional IT services providers. Follow Chloe Herrick on Twitter: @chloe_CW Follow Computerworld Australia on Twitter: @ComputerworldAU Related content opinion Website spoofing: risks, threats, and mitigation strategies for CIOs In this article, we take a look at how CIOs can tackle website spoofing attacks and the best ways to prevent them. By Yash Mehta Dec 01, 2023 5 mins CIO Cyberattacks Security brandpost Sponsored by Catchpoint Systems Inc. Gain full visibility across the Internet Stack with IPM (Internet Performance Monitoring) Today’s IT systems have more points of failure than ever before. Internet Performance Monitoring provides visibility over external networks and services to mitigate outages. By Neal Weinberg Dec 01, 2023 3 mins IT Operations brandpost Sponsored by Zscaler How customers can save money during periods of economic uncertainty Now is the time to overcome the challenges of perimeter-based architectures and reduce costs with zero trust. By Zscaler Dec 01, 2023 4 mins Security feature LexisNexis rises to the generative AI challenge With generative AI, the legal information services giant faces its most formidable disruptor yet. That’s why CTO Jeff Reihl is embracing and enhancing the technology swiftly to keep in front of the competition. By Paula Rooney Dec 01, 2023 6 mins Generative AI Digital Transformation Cloud Computing Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe