Although not saying 'yes,' the Commonwealth Bank has not ruled out the possibility of compensation for indirect losses arising from last night's outage.

Commonwealth Bank is blaming a "network outage" for last night's 4 hour disruption to banking services.

US based data centre provider, Digital Realty Trust, claims its two Sydney’s data centre developments will inject about $250 million in the NSW economy.

Cisco and Citrix Systems have entered into an alliance to integrate Cisco desktop virtualisation products with Cisco's data centre compute, storage, network and collaboration products.

SoftLayer Technologies, a US based provider of cloud, dedicated, and managed hosting services - named by Australian market researcher firm Longhaus as a leading offshore cloud provider in Australia - has entered the Asia Pacific market with the opening of a data centre in Singapore and network points of presence in Singapore, Tokyo, and Hong Kong.

Months after its first step Down-Under, US-based data centre solutions provider, Digital Realty Trust, today announced it had acquired a new development site in Melbourne for a declared price of about $4.1 million.

With Australia having a comparatively strong economy amongst its peers around the world, a strong currency and a resources-backed income source, reports that Amazon is considering both an Australian data centre and a local online presence would seem to make good business sense.

Leighton Contractors' data centre subsidiary, Metronode has commenced construction of the first two data centres, in Deer Park in Melbourne and Shenton Park in Perth, under its $100m data centre expansion program announced in January. They will offer respectively 7000 and 1140 square metres of technical space.

Indicium Technology Group is proud to announce that it was selected by Chi-X Australia, Chi-X® Global Inc.’s wholly owned Australian subsidiary, to provide Chi-X Australia with data centre services for its trading system and related infrastructure. These services will be delivered through Access Networks and Communications.

 Barely a week goes by without the announcement of yet another big data centre build in Australia with the Polaris $200 million facility in Victoria the latest in a long line of data centre projects from companies including Dell, HP, Fujitsu, Global Switch, Next DC and Macquarie Telecom. Data centres it seems are the new black.