Spotlight on data centres Spotlight on data centres

With an ever-increasing focus on energy use, efficiency and sustainability, the Australian data centre market is thriving and continuing to evolve.

Over the next two weeks iTnews will be looking at key trends such as new advancements in power and cooling technology, server and processor architecture, networks, storage, the co-location industry, cloud, as well as developments in modularisation and containerisation.

Special thanks to the support of Cisco, which has come onboard as a sponsor for our activities this week.

Aussie-hosted Office 365 goes live

Aussie-hosted Office 365 goes live

Microsoft steps up to data sovereignty demands.
William Maher Mar 31 2015 7:10AM Security
How a 50c fan pushed Teachers Mutual Bank to active-active

How a 50c fan pushed Teachers Mutual Bank to active-active

Core banking outage forces data centre overhaul.
Ry Crozier Mar 23 2015 6:43AM Strategy
How a school funded a microwave link with Google Apps

How a school funded a microwave link with Google Apps

Cloud cuts data centre costs in half.
Ry Crozier Mar 18 2015 11:36AM Strategy
Scale wins in Aussie race for cloud racks

Scale wins in Aussie race for cloud racks

Stakes high as DC operators battle for slice of cloud business.
Ry Crozier Mar 18 2015 6:45AM Networking
How Telstra axed modular from Clayton data centre design

How Telstra axed modular from Clayton data centre design

'Value engineered' out of the project.
Ry Crozier Mar 17 2015 6:36AM Financial Services
Inside AusPost's switch to active-active data centres

Inside AusPost's switch to active-active data centres

How it overcame a provider change midway through the project.
Ry Crozier Mar 16 2015 10:00AM Strategy
Telstra flags more Aussie regions for public cloud

Telstra flags more Aussie regions for public cloud

Potential two-city presence.
Ry Crozier Mar 12 2015 7:30AM Networking
NextDC betas open DC management tool

NextDC betas open DC management tool

Enters SaaS market with vendor-neutral solution.
Penny Wolf Mar 12 2015 5:09AM Hardware
IBM opens Sydney SoftLayer data centre

IBM opens Sydney SoftLayer data centre

Several months late to launch.
Andrew Colley Mar 11 2015 1:57PM Software
Facebook launches 'Yosemite' Open Compute server chassis

Facebook launches 'Yosemite' Open Compute server chassis

Targets scale-out systems.
Juha Saarinen Mar 11 2015 5:57AM Hardware
Equinix's Melbourne data centre to open in weeks

Equinix's Melbourne data centre to open in weeks

ME1 to span 9800 square metres and 1500 cabinets.
Juha Saarinen Mar 5 2015 10:47AM Storage
Alibaba muscles in on Amazon's turf with new US data centre

Alibaba muscles in on Amazon's turf with new US data centre

Chinese cloud business starts building in Silicon Valley.
John Ruwitch , Paul Carsten Mar 4 2015 8:32PM Storage
Australia Post completes data centre overhaul

Australia Post completes data centre overhaul

Laying foundations for the future.
Staff Writers Mar 4 2015 10:49AM Hardware
Apple to spend billions on two new Euro data centres

Apple to spend billions on two new Euro data centres

Powered by renewable energy.
Juha Saarinen Feb 24 2015 6:51AM Storage
Supernap's $1bn bet on Reno

Supernap's $1bn bet on Reno

Nevada facility larger than all Australia's co-lo combined.
Staff Writers Feb 19 2015 5:09PM Hardware
Vocus splashes $23.5m on two data centres

Vocus splashes $23.5m on two data centres

Acquires EDC business and assets.
Allie Coyne Feb 13 2015 11:27AM Hardware
Apple to build data centre out of failed sapphire plant

Apple to build data centre out of failed sapphire plant

Invests $2.6 billion in conversion.
Staff Writers Feb 3 2015 10:27AM Hardware
Fujitsu Perth data centre suffers power outage

Fujitsu Perth data centre suffers power outage

Storms down services for WA Health.
Allie Coyne Feb 2 2015 12:17PM Networking
Amazon wind farm to power data centres

Amazon wind farm to power data centres

Aims for 150 megawatt capacity.
Juha Saarinen Jan 21 2015 6:51AM Storage
IT pros to share data centre tips at 2015 summit

IT pros to share data centre tips at 2015 summit

[Blog post] How to get the best value out of your facilities.
Penny Wolf Jan 20 2015 2:16PM Networking

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