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Jon Curry is general manager of managed data centres at Telstra. Australia’s telco incumbent has over 25,000 square metres of data centre space used for internal purposes (BigPond etc) and the provision of hosting, managed IT services and cloud compute to enterprise and Government customers. Jon’s team is currently building a 6MW facility in Melbourne adjoining an existing 5MW facility to help consolidate legacy data centres spread around the nation. iTnews has reported that Telstra cloud customers include industrial giants Visy and Kohmatsu among others. Telstra also operates Australia’s largest terrestrial and mobile networks. Jon has an impressive legacy of infrastructure project and management roles at the likes of Telecom NZ, NAB, Coca-Cola Amatil and Allianz.