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Top American technology companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple and Facebook are reaping subsidies of US$1.95 million per job by obtaining funds from states and localities to build data centres.

France-based hosting company OVH is coming to Australia.

When the lights went out in South Australia and the entire state was hit by power outages, energy infrastructure provider Emerson Network Power required a rapid response to calls for assistance from customers for the protection of crucial information stored in data centres under its management.

Sydney-based telecommunications services provider, Talk To You Soon, has set up a point of presence at NextDC’s Sydney data centre as the company looks to expand its  infrastructure for future growth and access the carrier networks connected to the data centre.

Megaport, the company founded by high-profile serial entrepreneur Bevan Slattery, is to use its SDN-based elastic fabric interconnection solution to power Digital Realty’s Service Exchange, a solution designed to simplify global data centre and cloud interconnection.

TechnologyOne has implemented NetApp Private Storage (NPS) on a FlexPod data centre platform with MetroCluster to help reduce costs and increase performance for its global customers.

National data centre operator NextDC is planning to build a second Sydney data centre to meet what it says is growing demand in the Sydney market for data centre services.

VoIP wholesale service provider Telnyx has partnered with global data centre operator Equinix to expand Telnyx’s high-performance platform to Europe and Asia.

Tech entrepreneur Bevan Slattery has launched yet another new business, this time a directory of thousands of data centres and cloud and Internet service providers.

National data centre operator, Metronode, has sealed a deal with an unnamed, major international company, to provide 8MW of capacity at its Melbourne data centre.

Strong demand for its data centre services has helped listed Data-Centre-as-a-Service provider NextDC (ASX:NXT) to achieve solid growth for the year to the end of June and to record a statutory net profit of $1.8 million.

Oper8 has selected NEXTDC’s national data centre network for colocation services to provide its customers with complete, end-to-end IT solutions and access to secure, high speed networking across Australia and New Zealand through the virtual connectivity services on AXONVX.

Data centre operator Equinix has completed phase two of its IBX ME1 data centre in Melbourne.

Imagine if your smartphone or tablet battery was smart enough to recharge itself using power from the radio waves it generates to go online. Radient says it can be done!

Will fibre ever replace copper cable? While intuitively you might say yes, the answer is that both will be around for quite some time yet.

Datacom has launched a new national network connecting all of its data centres across Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia.

Geospatial imagery specialist firm Spookfish has signed a data centre co-location deal with NEXTDC to optimise its data processing costs and rapidly scale up to meet data the processing requirements of its aerial imaging technology.

Equinix international business exchange (IBX) data centres in Melbourne, Sydney, Singapore and Indonesia have been selected by Trident Subsea Cable for the cable’s Points-of-Presence (PoPs) in the Asia-Pacific region.

US data centre company Cologix has deployed Megaport’s software defined networking (SDN) fabric in its data centres in major US and Canadian markets.  

Queensland-based property industry construction, engineering and support services company, FKG Group, has engaged Schneider Electric to provide expertise for the development of its new Tier 3, 10 megawatt regional data centre to be built in Toowoomba.