Macquarie Telecom's 'greenfield' data centre site in Fairbairn ACT has been added to the Federal Government's data centre facilities panel, even though Macquarie has not yet committed to building a data centre on the site. Also added is a site owned by Dell at Hume in the ACT.

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider, OutSystems, has snared a major contract with the United States Department of Defense to assist with consolidation in 962 of the army's data centres across the US by 2015.

Australian solutions integrator and data centre transformation specialists, Envisian, has expanded its management team with the appointment of IT industry sales specialist, Sue Tabor, to the role of account executive.

ICT services provider, Dimension Data, has appointed a new chief of its Queensland operation as the company sets itself for strong growth in the Queensland market this year.

Cable&Wireless Worldwide has a new chief in charge of its global hosting services business in the wake of its announcement of a multi-million dollar investment in new data centre facilities to expand hosting capacity by 25 percent.

Cable&Wireless Worldwide is making a multi-million dollar investment in an expansion of its global data hosting capacity in a deal with specialist data centre operator, Infinity.

Storage and data management solutions provider, NetApp has expanded its global partner network through which its cloud services are delivered, claiming a doubling in size over the past six months as 20 new additional partners come onboard.

The Australian Open grand slam tennis tournament is underway in Melbourne, and IBM is leveraging a global private cloud computing system for this year’s event which allows organisers, Tennis Australia, to rapidly scale its data in real time, as well as guarantee continuous availability even in the event of a complete data centre outage.

C&W Worldwide has partnered with data centre operator Equinix to expand its cloud computing service - presently available only in the UK - to customers around the world.

Dell has chosen SUSE as the first Linux distribution available on its Dell Cloud with VMware vCloud Datacenter Service.