Macquarie Telecom to expand government-certified cloud
Macquarie Telecom is planning to expand its Australian Signals Directorate-certified cloud into its new Sydney facility, which is expected to come online in 2019.
Macquarie Telecom is planning to expand its Australian Signals Directorate-certified cloud into its new Sydney facility, which is expected to come online in 2019.
KB Food Group, Australia’s largest handler of fresh seafood, has replaced its ageing IT infrastructure with hyperconverged infrastructure built with DataCore’s Virtual SAN software and Lenovo x3650 servers, reducing its hardware footprint by 70 per cent and improving the performance of key processes by up to 14 times.
Equinix will spend $1.035 billion to acquire Metronode, the data centre operator announced today.
In IT we often hear the concept of ‘single pane of glass’ – a symbolic, possibly overused phrase that puts everything you need to worry about onto a single screen that could be managed by someone who doesn’t have any technical expertise.
A consortium bringing together iseek Communications, Optus and Schneider Electric will build the North Queensland Regional Data Centre (NQRDC).
Rackspace has partnered with HP Enterprise to offer pay-as-you-go private cloud services based on OpenStack.
Data centre operator NextDC has begun welcoming customers into B2, the ASX-listed company’s second Brisbane data centre.
AirTrunk has officially launched its flagship Sydney data centre, with the company saying the facility will be one of the largest in the Asia Pacific region on a megawatt basis.
NYSE-listed Digital Realty has broken ground on a new Sydney data centre at Erskine Park.
Soaring wholesale prices have pushed business electricity bills up to 19.9 per cent as of July, meaning it’s more important than ever for businesses to assess energy usage and operational effectiveness.
The New South Wales government says it has made savings in a number of areas from its data centre consolidation program, but the department overseeing the process won’t say whether it’s been completed — and if not, when it is likely to be.
Data centre operator Metronode will this year spend $150 million on infrastructure projects, the company has announced.
Equinix’s SY4 will host an additional 1500 cabinets after the company completes an expansion of the data centre.
It’s hard to believe that the all-flash data centre started over 20 years ago
In the past 12 months, there’s been a lot of hype about new advancements in storage that include new forms of non-volatile memory (such as Z-NAND from Samsung and 3D Xpoint from Intel and Micron). There’s also been growing adoption of newer interfaces such as non-volatile memory express (NVMe) and more modern software, which seek to reduce the imbalance in data centre IT infrastructure created by CPU advancements of the past three decades.