Digital Sense plans two massive data centres

by Stuart Corner

Tuesday, 18 March 2008

Page 1 of 3 ! Digital Sense is building, in Kenmore Brisbane, the first of two massive new data centres in response to burgeoning demand for outsourced data centre services. It has placed an initial order with Emerson Network Power worth $3.2m for the first phase of the project – a 400 square metre section of the 1,600 square metre data centre. According to Emerson, the Kenmore facility will be the first purpose-built high-density data centre in Australia consuming 2,000 watts per square metre of floor space. (The largest data centres currently in operation top out at less than 1,000 watts per square metre) Digital Sense is also building a second data centre with Emerson, code-named Data Centre City, with a total area of 10,000 square metres and capacity of 6,500 watts per square metre. It will be Australia’s largest high-density facility, providing up to 25 kilowatts of cooling per rack with Emerson’s supplemental cooling technology.   "Demand is outstripping supply for the highest possible performance and security from outsourced data centre facilities," said Michael Tran, director, Digital Sense. "We have large and successful facilities in Australia, but none of them are purpose-built to support true high-density computing across every metre of floor space, and that’s where we come in." According to Tran, demand is particularly strong from large government departments, Australia’s booming mining conglomerates, large corporate operations, web hosting services and medical industries.  "These companies can’t run their operations without top-notch information systems working 24/7 to support millions of customers around Australia and around the world. They’re also bound by strict corporate governance laws, so backup and recovery services – which often means locating equipment in multiple secure sites – are never far from the top of their list." Peter Spiteri, Emerson's director of marketing, says demand for outsourced data centres in Australia is being driven in part by the inability of existing data centres to get sufficient power to enable expansion. "The biggest issue facing data centre operators in Australia is getting sufficient power. CONTINUED << First page <   1 2 3 Next page > Last page - Post your comment >>

 

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