The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
"That might be purely from the market, it might be in partnership
arrangements, it might be some agencies collaborating together and then
having a facility – which may even be a major big commercial facility
with a large part is segregated as ‘G ‘for government."
In the short to medium term, Steward said the strategy would likely
focus generally “cleaning up” existing data centre facilities and
infrastructure, with efficiency improvements being targeted through
platform consolidation and software, through virtualisation programs.
But as AGIMO readies for its end of year deadline to delivery its
strategy to Government, Steward says it has nearly completed the
creation of a panel of suppliers for data centre services. This interim
measure aimed to meet demands among departments and agencies with
urgent constraints that could not wait for the completion of the
overall strategy.
Regardless, Steward said the interim measures that would be enabled by
the panel would be consistent with longer term plans – and that panels
formation would be a good indicator of Government’s plans.
"Because some agencies were coming to the end of a contract period or
the like, we have already done an aggregation of their demand ... of
agencies that need to move earlier than that would be able to happen on
the whole process," Steward said.
"So we have been out to market and established a panel so that agencies
can go to those suppliers who have been assessed as having the range of
facilities that we want."
"We have done this with a coordinated approach. We have much better
clarity around price and around the services that are being supplied -
and those that are not just Canberra based but in other areas of
Australia."
“This is a major point of informing into the overall data centre strategy."
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