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Interconnection services provider Megaport has sealed a deal with Oracle to facilitate connections for Oracle customers via its data centre network.

Interconnection services provider Megaport has launched a new global marketplace — Megaport Exchange — which it says is designed to connect its ecosystem of providers to its global network of customers.

By Simon Cooper, Chief Operating Officer, NEXTDC

Outsourcing your data centre service to a purpose-built facility offers greater efficiency, reliability and security. It also opens up new opportunities to connect with an ecosystem of other relevant service providers.

Qualcomm subsidiary Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies has announced a collaboration with Microsoft to accelerate next-generation cloud services on its 10 nanometre Qualcomm Centriq 2400 platform.

Dark fibre connectivity services provider Superloop has expanded its high-speed inter-capital colocation network with a new point of presence (PoP) at NEXTDC’s Canberra data centre.

Data centre provider NextDC has achieved significant growth in its business, with revenue jumping 39% to $58.7 million for the six months to the end of December.

The cost of global expansion has thrown data operator and interconnection services provider Megaport into a net loss of $13.7 million to the end of December on total revenues of $4.59 million for the six months.

Macquarie Telecom has completed a 50% expansion of its Canberra government data centre — Intellicentre 4 Bunker — to cope with what it says is a strong uptake of services since the centre was launched three years ago.

ASX-listed data centre operator Megaport says the first half of the 2017 fiscal year has been a very successful one on all fronts, including revenue, locations, ports, and services.

New Zealand’s largest telco Spark has helped the New Zealand Racing Board (NZRB) successfully complete the major phase of a two-part data centre migration overnight in December.

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are becoming more frequent and complex, forcing businesses to deploy purpose-built DDoS protection solutions, according to a new infrastructure security report which warns that the threat landscape has been transformed by the emergence of Internet of Things (IoT) botnets.

Global energy management company Schneider Electric and Hewlett Packard Enterprise are collaborating to create a Micro Datacentre solution which they say helps meet new data growth requirements.

Optus Wholesale continues to ramp up NBN wholesale offers with the introduction of state-based, national and hybrid aggregation models which it says will deliver greater flexibility for its customers.

Data centre company Metronode has secured an expansion of its contract with the NSW Government with the government’s decision to considerably expand data centre capacity in two of its facilities this year.

Data centre provider Metronode now has three of its data centres with a Nabers 4.5-star rating for energy efficiency with two of its facilities just awarded the ratings, joining the Silverwater data centre in Sydney awarded at the start of this year.

Global payments technology company, Adyen, has deployed its infrastructure in Equinix data centres in both Sydney and Melbourne.

Hybrid IT is fast becoming the IT “infrastructure of choice” for organisations in Australia as they move towards a blend of in-house and third-party services for datacentre, network, security, and applications services, according to a newly publish survey.

Global data centre and interconnection company Equinix is collaborating with Facebook and the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) to deploy and test the Facebook-designed packet-optical switches, known as Voyager, inside two of its international business exchange data centres.

Interconnection services provider Megaport has recorded strong growth for the first quarter of the 2016-2017 financial year, with an increase in revenues of 91% on the back of “organic growth, acquisitions and execution of key strategic partnerships”.

Flight Centre New Zealand has deployed an enterprise cloud platform from hyperconverged infrastructure vendor Nutanix to help its travel experts service a growing number of New Zealand residents travelling abroad.