He said Telstra would be VMware's main vCloud Air partner in Australia, but stopped short of claiming exclusivity. "It is inside our data centre and we are the main channel to it," Mr Yarkoni said. "Direct connectivity from your existing VMware deployment to this cloud will be served by Telstra almost exclusively. However, there may be other cases where we help people connect in a different way." Mr Yarkoni said that Telstra also planned to facilitate connection to overseas data centres offering the services. At present vCloud Air is available from seven data centres in the USA, two in Europe and one in Japan. It is another tick on Telstra's long to-do list of cloud offerings for Australian-based clients. In 2011, it announced an $800 million investment in the segment, declaring cloud was "part of its growth strategy". vCloud Air joins a growing number of public cloud services available from data centres in Australia.