Gen-i this week opened its new $10.5 million data centre, based a Perimeter Road site within the Christchurch International Airport campus. The new data centre was launched by Amy Adams, Minister for Communications and Information Technology.
As a growing number of organisations seek to become major players in today’s data-driven economy, the data centre remains one of the most important pieces of business infrastructure.
Facebook has revealed it will build its first data centre in Asia in Singapore, investing more than US$1 billion.
Microsoft is preparing to provide Azure services from within Australia in "a matter of months", according to the software vendor's Australian managing director Pip Marlow.
The report ‘Energy efficiency policy options for Australian and New Zealand data centres' by the Equipment Energy Efficiency Programme (E3), under the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA), is now available for comment.
Devices that use the Internet of Things (IoT) will generate big data that needs to be processed and analysed in real time, putting more pressure on data centre providers, according to a new Gartner report.
In a cloud-obsessed world, is there a relevance yet for virtualisation and technologies associated with it? Apparently so.
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