Equinix opens eighth Sydney data centre
Data centre operator Equinix continues its Australian expansion with the opening of its eighth International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre in Sydney - named SY5 - with an initial investment of...
View ArticleCarbon Black opening local data centre in 2020
Endpoint protection vendor VMware Carbon Black is to open an Australian data centre in the first half of 2020. Recently acquired by VMware, Carbon Black provides a cloud-native endpoint protection...
View ArticleMegaport expands services to Japanese market
Australian-listed network as a service (NaaS) provider Megaport has announced the expansion of services to Japan, with cloud connectivity services now available in Tokyo, through multiple data centres....
View ArticleWork starts on Macquarie IC3 data centre
Macquarie Telecom subsidiary Macquarie Data Centres has broken ground on its new Intellicentre 3 (IC3) data centre in Sydney. The first phase of the project – due for completion in the second half of...
View ArticleCERN selects Juniper Networks to increase data centres capacity
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has deployed Juniper Networks networking solutions to increase the capacity of its data centres and technical network to adapt to increasing...
View ArticleIs Interconnection the Key to Unlocking the Future of Payments in Australia
Mary McHale, Financial Services Director, Equinix Asia-Pacific GUEST OPINION: SPONSORED NEWS. The emergence and increasing adoption introduction of new digital payment methods, such as ‘buy now, pay...
View ArticleEquinix promotes Guy Danskine to top job in Australia
Data centre operator Equinix has appointed nine-year company veteran Guy Danskine as managing director for Australia. Danskine, who joined Equinix in 2011, succeeds Jeremy Deutsch, who was appointed...
View ArticleNextDC S1 takes the ExpressRoute to Azure
Data centre operator NextDC has announced a Microsoft ExpressRoute connection between its S1 Sydney data centre and Microsoft Azure. NextDC already offers ExpressRoute from its Melbourne M1 and Perth...
View ArticleTasmaNet set to sell DC3 data centre
Tasmanian communications provider TasmaNet has signed a binding term sheet agreement to sell the assets of its DC3 data centre in Hobart to Australian data centre specialist DXN. Under the deal...
View ArticleEquinix opens fourth Melbourne data centre
Data centre operator Equinix has opened its fourth International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre in Melbourne to support the city’s smart city development and the “growing demand for digital...
View ArticleFinancial sector companies lead market on hybrid cloud deployments
The financial sector outpaces all other industries in hybrid cloud deployments – hosting workloads in both private and public cloud – but trail others in their use of multiple public cloud services,...
View ArticleMacquarie Telecom delivers ‘eleven halves’ of growth
Telecommunications and data centre provider Macquarie Telecom has boosted revenue by 9% to $131.9 million for the half year to the end of December 2019, delivering what the company says is eleven...
View ArticleEquinix completes US$335 million acquisition of Packet
Data centre operator Equinix has completed the acquisition of bare metal automation platform Packet in a deal it says accelerates its strategy to help enterprises seamlessly deploy hybrid multicloud...
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