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Global data centre capex is on track to reach US$377 billion ($541 billion) by 2026 with hyperscale cloud service providers accounting for more than half the market total, according to market firm Dell’Oro Group.

Experience management specialist Alida plans to open a data centre in Sydney this winter.

Fujitsu Australia signed a power purchase agreement for a term of 10 years sourcing renewable energy through CWP Renewables’ Sapphire Wind Farm.

Final 2021 data from the Synergy Research Group shows that worldwide spend on data centre IT hardware and software grew by 10% from 2020, primarily thanks to a 20% jump in spending on public cloud infrastructure, which pushed it to an all-time high.

March 23 each year is the day to celebrate International Data Centre Day, with the day "designed to create awareness of the data centre industry and to inspire the next generation of talent."

COMPANY NEWS: Entrust, a leading provider of trusted identities, payments, and data protection solutions, has announced the geographic expansion of its nShield as a service hardware security module (HSM) offering. Responding to rising demand for cloud services, the company has opened two new data centres in Australia in 2022 as part of a general expansion in the Asia Pacific region. As reported by Telstra, 79% of Australian organisations recorded a cloud-related cyber security incident in 2021, suggesting a growing need for geo-fencing and cloud-centric hardware protection.

Fortinet unveils the FortiGate 3000F, a next-generation firewall powered by the NP7 and CP9 security processing units, to support organisations building hybrid IT architectures that accelerate innovation and fuel business growth.

COMPANY NEWS AMD's Peter Chambers spoke with iTWire.TV on CIO challenges, key enterprise trends, the Ryzen Pro 6000 series, Pluton, and partnerships with Lenovo and HP.

COMPANY NEWS: NetApp recently announced new additions, security upgrades and enhanced capabilities across its hybrid cloud portfolio to help organisations modernise their IT infrastructure, and to accelerate digital transformation, which makes it simpler for enterprises to put their data to work, whenever and wherever they need it - so what are the details? Dhruv gets in the groove to explain it all.

COMPANY NEWS: NetApp recently announced new additions, security upgrades and enhanced capabilities across its hybrid cloud portfolio to help organisations modernise their IT infrastructure, and to accelerate digital transformation, which makes it simpler for enterprises to put their data to work, whenever and wherever they need it - so what are the details? Dhruv gets in the groove to explain it all.

Square Enix officially launched its Final Fantasy XIV Online data centre this week, providing local support for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game. New characters can now be created here, and Home World transfers have also opened up. In fact, as new worlds, any player who transfers to, or creates new characters, on the Oceania data centre worlds will receive special bonuses.

Digital infrastructure company Equinix opens a new international business exchange data centre in Perth named PE3.

Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, says it fully migrated all of Alibaba Group’s systems and operations onto the cloud ahead of the world’s largest shopping festival.

Leading Edge Data Centre has built its first data centre in Tamworth, benefiting local businesses by reducing their communications costs by more than 50% and increasing their bandwidth more than 10x.

GUEST OPINION: Equinix explains how to build and connect digital infrastructure with hybrid multi-cloud at the edge.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Hyperscalers is the Australian next-gen open-OEM solving IT's complexity, eliminating proprietary hardware and software vendor lock-ins, delivering better technologies at competitive pricing. Doing it all from Canberra to Australian and global customers since 2014, in what is an inspiring and true success story its customers love.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Hyperscalers is the Australian next-gen open-OEM solving IT's complexity, eliminating proprietary hardware and software vendor lock-ins, delivering better technologies at competitive pricing. Doing it all from Canberra to Australian and global customers since 2014, in what is an inspiring and true success story its customers love.

AWS announced today the plan to open an infrastructure region in New Zealand in 2024 with a new AWS Asia Pacific (Auckland) region consisting of three availability zones. The new region provides NZ customers with low latency workloads and secure data storage meeting data sovereignty requirements.

Trend Micro has announced the launch of its Trend Micro Cloud One regional data centre in Sydney, supporting data sovereignty for Australian customers and enabling enterprises to adopt a SaaS-based security framework.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Daniel Smith is the Head of Research at Radware, and he joined me for a discussion on understanding cyber criminals, DDOS attacks, security conferences, ransomware, the pandemic, hacker groups and much more - and it's no teddy bear's picnic.