Hobart-based telco TasmaNet has launched its eastern seaboard cloud node in Sydney to expand its TasmaNet Core private cloud platform. TasmaNet’s platform is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering that the company said allows customers to retain control of business data and ICT expenditure while moving to the cloud. TasmaNet chief executive Rob Vernon said the cloud node investment expands capability to the company to deliver elastic private cloud connectivity to customers and partners. “As TasmaNet has grown its footprint of customers and services in eastern states, we are leveraging our connectivity to enable secure access to the enterprise grade elastic compute