As the city accounting for 65% of Australia’s financial services activity, Sydney will inevitably be at the centre of the new data centre wave.

The APAC region is set to be the biggest market for data centers by 2021, with a total market size to be around US$28 billion by 2024 for colocation data centres, according to a new joint report from Digital Realty and Eco-Business.

Microsoft’s ‘Reimagine Taiwan’ initiative will be bolstered by the company’s plans to create a new data center region in the country.

The expansion ensures that the full range of Acronis Cyber Protection Solutions will be available to partners and organisations around the world.

New HCI, cloud, storage and data protection integration with latest VMware releases for edge locations, data centres and hybrid clouds.

Increased government spending to modernise the existing IT infrastructure and  agrowing shift towards server virtualisation are the major factors likely to boost the growth of the IaaS market in the region.

OVHcloud has released its Hosted Private Cloud Premier offering, with a focus on providing competitive performance, security, isolation and location of data.

The $20 million data centre project, developed in partnership with Ausgrid, will boost jobs, create much-needed network infrastructure and strengthen the digital economy of the Newcastle and the greater Hunter region.

The need for more flexible options is driving enterprise away from on-premises deployments to cloud-based technology, writes Hyland country manager for ANZ Jamie Atherton.

“Enhancing regional connectivity is of strategic importance to Australia’s digital infrastructure upgrade."

Nintex Workflow Cloud can now be used in Australia in New Zealand, Nintex announced today, via a Microsoft Azure data centre in Victoria, Australia.

NVIDIA says the new SmartNIC draws on software-defined, hardware-accelerated engines to alleviate the bulk of network and security processing power typically applied to CPUs.

Digital Realty hopes that the SIN12 facility will provide an efficient, sustainable, secure and regulatory compliant location that will help customers build a future-proof foundation for their data center strategy. 

Aruba has activated a new global cloud data centre, based at its technology campus on the outskirts of Milan and provided by internet service provider Cogent.

Mellanox says the Ethernet switch is optimised for cloud, Ethernet storage fabric and AI applications through its support from Spectrum-3.

Google will invest more than $10 billion in its United States offices and data centers in 2020, Google CEO Sundar Pinchai declared last week.

luebird Network chose to build the 26-mile-long fiber network completely underground to protect it from natural disasters.

Data centers are now a cornerstone of the information economy, with USD$100 billion having been poured into the asset class over the past decade.

Many of SiteGround’s new customers from the U.S. and Europe are already activated in Google’s U.S. and Netherlands Cloud locations. Existing customers in these locations are in the process of being moved.

Equinix took the top spot across Europe, North America, Asia, and Oceania.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has entered into an alliance to launch a first-of-its-kind data center efficiency label, designed to decarbonise data centers and significantly reduce their energy consumption.

Arista Networks has reportedly purchased Big Switch Networks, a cloud-first networking provider with deep roots in the data center space.

ManageEngine is leveraging two Australian data centres to host its cloud-based IT management applications.

Information Services Group (ISG) has named Unisys as one of the global leaders in cloud and data center services.