Analysts predict an uptake in trigeneration technology and data centre infrastructure management tools, and that there will be more consolidation of IT infrastructure, more sophisticated monitoring and reporting of energy use, and driving down energy costs will become a top priority for CIOs next year.
Data centre operator NextDC (ASX: NXT) has been given the go-ahead to kick off construction on its latest data centre in Sydney, S1, which was initially announced back in March.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is to deploy a new contact centre solution to help the agency cope with an expected large increase in calls prompted in part by the launch of the carbon tax mid next year.
After months of speculation, details of the Federal Government’s carbon tax have finally emerged and now industry, consumers, politicians and lobby groups are in the thick of debating its costs and consequences.
The details of the Carbon Tax have finally been revealed and everyone wants to know how it will affect them. The IT industry is no exception and questions arise as to the likely impact on data centres, Cloud usage and even green IT initiatives in general.
The introduction of the new carbon tax on 1 July, 2012 may mean increased energy costs for the IT industry, but at least one storage virtualization vendor has been gearing up for a predicted increase in sales.
The tax and compensation package released by the Federal Government as part of its carbon pricing scheme has implications for every Australian business, but ploughing through the minutiae to find out how will affect operations is something of chore.
Data centre operators ASG Group and Vocus have confirmed that they will pass on some increases in energy costs associated with the Gillard Government's carbon tax to customers after 1 July next year.
Telecoms analyst Paul Budde has cited the carbon tax as an opportunity to create innovation in the IT sector, describing it as the second major reform from Labor after the National Broadband Network (NBN).
The debate about the implementation of a carbon tax in Australia may be heating up, but major data centre providers are keeping relatively cool despite the implications of such a tax on the ICT industry.