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SaaS and enterprise mobile security vendor Bitglass has appointed Westcon-Comstor as the company’s first value-added distributor in New Zealand.

Cloud providers are the fastest growing segment of most Australian data centre providers, according to one telecoms analyst who says major global cloud service providers have huge growth expectations for the Asia Pacific region and are investing their capital to reflect their rapid growth.

Digital signing operator DocuSign is setting up shop in three Australian data centres.

Managed cloud provider Rackspace has added colocation services to its portfolio.

Global cloud infrastructure as a service provider OVH has announced a network upgrade and new offers as part of its extensive expansion plans in the Asia Pacific region.

Online cloud directory Cloudscene has ranked Equinix as the number one data centre in Oceania in its data centre leaderboard rankings for the first quarter of 2018.

One of CeBIT Australia's new sponsors this year is global global hyper-scale cloud provider OVH, celebrating the first anniversary of opening its APAC regional HQ in Melbourne while exhibiting at Australia's best business tech exhibition.

Much of the improvement in data centrepower usage effectiveness has come from three areas.

Property-integrated construction, engineering and support services company FKG Group has completed construction of a $40 million Pulse Data Centre in the south-eastern Queensland city of Toowoomba.

US-based global interconnection and data centre company Equinix has completed the acquisition of Australian data centre provider Metronode.

Data centre operator NEXTDC is planning to acquire three new commercial property sites for future data centre developments in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth, which it will fund through a $281 million new share placement and purchase plan.

Technology spending in Australia is forecast to grow 2.3% to reach A$84.5 billion in 2018, as the latest forecasts for global technology spending have been revised upwards by 1.8% to 6.2% – or US$3.7 trillion for 2018.

Telstra has selected US-based data centre and cloud security company vArmour to help secure the privacy of its secure applications and data.

Perth-based national IT services provider Empired has been selected by Microsoft as the launch partner for its cloud computing platform, Azure, for its Central Regions data centres in Canberra.

Demonstrating its advanced technologies at the OCP Summit 2018 to support "accelerated hyperscale demand and data growth", Seagate's 14TB drive is its biggest yet.

Interconnection services provider Megaport is to raise up $60 million  to expand its capability to deliver connectivity to a broader customer base.

Data centre provider NEXTDC has selected a cooling solution from Vertiv, formerly Emerson Network Power, for its new facility in Melbourne.

The NSW government's GovDC marketplace for ICT procurement is now the primary data centre provider for three leading education institutions, with more tertiary education facilities assessing the market and realising the value and benefits of the program.

Data centre operator NextDC has announced a rise of 32% in its revenue for the first half of 2018, with revenue up to $77.5 million, compared to $58.7 million in the first half of the previous financial year.

Inter-connected services and data centre operator Megaport has reported increased revenue of $8.8 million for the six months to the end of December 2017, an increase of 98% from the same period in 2016.