Leighton Contractors' data centre operator subsidiary, Metronode, has signed a $182m 10 year contract with the NSW Government for the provision of two managed data centres in NSW.
SAP's cloud arm opens Aust data centres
SuccessFactors has announced a multi-million dollar investment that will see it able to offer local hosting of its cloud based ERP systems.
Greenpeace butts heads with Apple again
Has the environmental campaigning organisation once again failed to give credit where it is due? Is it taking credit that it doesn't deserve?
HP installs 'world's most efficient' data centre
HP has completed the installation of an HP EcoPOD at one of its data centre. The company claims the EcoPOD is "the world's most efficient data centre."
Emerson debuts data centre optimisation products
Emerson Network Power has launched the first four applications in its Trellis suite of data centre management and optimisation products - announced over a year ago - claiming that even a modest gain in data centre efficiency, if achieved universally, could save businesses billions of dollars.
Carbon tax won't slow cloud: Pacnet
Regional ICT specialist Pacnet is more than quadrupling the size of its CloudSpace1 data centre in Sydney, apparently unfazed by the likely impact of the carbon tax and resulting electricity price rises estimated to be as high as 16 per cent.
Hosting provider deploys Brocade solutions for cloud services
Australian hosting and cloud services provider, 6YS, has deployed Brocade's ethernet fabric and routing infrastructure as a foundation for what it says is the rapid growth of its Ironpoint Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering.
Clean, green new data centre will save money, power
The federal government is merging the operations of seven older data centres into a new data centre to support the operations of the Department of Human Services in a move which the government says will save about $5 million in power costs and reduce the department's ICT carbon footprint by 50 percent.
Metronode's Melbourne data centre scores tier III accreditation
Leighton Contractors' data centre operator subsidiary, Metronode's new Victorian data centre has become the second in Australia to be awarded tier III accreditation by the Uptime Institute.
OpenMarket setting up new global data centre in Sydney
Global mobile transaction company, OpenMarket, will use Sydney as the base for its next global data centre to offer Australian businesses what it says is added data security and the option of local processing.
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