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COMPANY NEWS: Kong, the cloud connectivity company, today unveiled a new concept called ZeroLB and a breakthrough pattern for load balancing. The company also announced the general availability of Kong Mesh 1.4, with industry-first features to support ZeroLB out of the box, offering up to 4x improvement in network performance and a substantial cost reduction compared to traditional centralised LB-based architectures. Based on customer feedback, this modern approach for load balancing is expected to save organisations with mission-critical applications up to a million dollars a year by reducing required technology investments.

Data centre operator NextDC's M2 Melbourne data centre now offers Google Cloud Interconnect.

Data centre operator Macquarie Data Centres has announced plans to build its biggest data centre to date. Intellicentre 3 Super West is to be built at the company's Macquarie Park data centre campus in Sydney.

Australian-listed 5G Networks has sealed a new service agreement with modular data centre operator DXN, to provide business continuity capabilities through 5GN’s Dark Fibre & IP Transit solutions.

Equinix, announced that it has been named to the Fortune 500 list, ranking #461.

Electricity consumption from data centres and 5G base stations in China is "on track to increase by an estimated 289% between 2020 and 2035," according to a new report from Greenpeace, which also shows 61% of electricity that powered China’s digital infrastructure came from coal in 2020.

GUEST OPINION by Ashley Diffey, Head of APAC and Japan at Ping Identity: When information technology was first embraced by businesses, it tended to be in a very centralised form. Data centres held core applications and databases while users gained access through authorised devices and network links.

Data centre owner and operator DCI Data Centers has announced plans to spend $70 million on a new data centre in South Australia, along with upgrades to its existing facilities on the site.

Security vendor Sophos plans to open a data centre in Sydney in August.

On-demand interconnection service enables agile and secure access to trusted hybrid multicloud services throughout Australia and globally.

Design, engineering and advisory firm Aurecon and property design platform Archistar have joined forces to combine Aurecon's proprietary engineering data with Archistar's Workspace software, creating what the companies describe as a world-first digital tool for data centre site selection.

Planning approvals for data centres and warehouses will be assessed under a new accelerated pathway to help stimulate the State’s post-pandemic economic recovery, according to the government of The Australian state of NSW.

Cloud visibility and analytics provider Gigamon today announced a partnership with Riverbed, the leader in performance and visibility of networks and applications, in support of the recent Gigamon Hawk launch.

Fujitsu Australia is now one of just 19 data centre operators around the world authorised to deploy Nvidia DGX systems.