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Macquarie Telecom Group's Macquarie Data Centres and Macquarie Government businesses have launched the Intellicentre 5 (IC5) data centre in Canberra to house the most highly classified Australian Government workloads.

Cloud provider OVHcloud is looking to expand its local capacity through a tie-up with independent data centre operator NextDC.

GUEST OPINION by Lucas Salter, General Manager ANZ and APJ, Data Protection Solutions, Dell Technologies: Keeping an organisation running remotely brings challenges. Some are well documented - insert your videoconferencing call horror story here - but one of the biggest and underappreciated, is managing protecting, and recovering data from traditional and modern applications across core data centres, edge locations and public clouds.

Regional data centre operator Leading Edge Data Centres will use Megaport to provide direct connectivity from its Newcastle data centre.

Predicting technology trends is a challenging task—even more so coming out of a year where the world flipped in unforeseen ways. In 2020, circumstances accelerated years’ worth of digital transformation in mere months, bringing a profound and sustained impact to how we live and work. COVID-19 has expedited digital adoption in every business across every industry. It has also highlighted the critical role digital infrastructure and technology play in enabling business success. So, what can we anticipate in the coming year and beyond?

Brookfield Asset Management subsidiary DCI Data Centers has received development approval from Blacktown City Council for its proposed $400 million, 36MW Eastern Creek data centre.

Communications and data centre provider Macquarie Telecom has expended its debt facility to $190 million with Australia and New Zealand Banking Group and Royal Bank of Canada to provide an additional $50 million of debt capacity.

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) has released a new report about devolved data centre decisions, reviewing the current situation, the implications and the challenges, with Macquarie Govt's MD, Aidan Tudehope, issuing comment.

The Critical Infrastructure Bill, introduced by the Minister for Home Affairs, Peter Dutton MP, will recognise telecommunications and data centres as critical national infrastructure for the first time.

Global networking vendor Cisco and Leading Edge Data Centres have joined forces to build and deploy modular data centres in parts of regional Australia that lack such infrastructure.

Cloud services and hosting provider Hostopia Australia has secured a long-term deal with data centre operator Equinix to consolidate its five separate data centres across Sydney and Melbourne into Equinix’s SY5 and ME2 data centre facilities.

Macquarie Data Centres expects to spend an additional $50 million and to create hundreds of new jobs as a result of a "significant customer win" following today’s announcement it has entered into a contract for the provision of approximately 10MW of capacity (IT Load) at its Macquarie Park Data Centre Campus.

Data centre provider NEXTDC is collaborating with software-defined interconnection platform Console Connect by PCCW Global in a move aimed at expanding access for Australian businesses to cloud infrastructure and data centres worldwide.

Cyber protection company Acronis has launched its first cloud data centre in New Zealand as part of its global deployment of 111 new data centres.

Game changing cyber protection company Acronis is expanding regional support for its growing roster global partners, deploying local data centres, enhancing cyber infrastructure and more to ensure to full range of Acronis Cyber Protection Solutions is available to partners and organisations around the world.

Australian data centre infrastructure spending is forecast to return to growth of 6.5% in 2021, despite an estimated decline of 10.4% for this year due to restricted cash flow during the pandemic.

Nvidia's GTC conference may be virtual this year, but that hasn't stopped the company making several real announcements.

The 18TB version of Seagate Technology's Exos X18 hard drive is now shipping.

Data centre networks provider Leading Edge Data Centres is planning to build a multimillion-dollar data centre in the New South Wales regional city of Tamworth.

Singapore-based data centre developer DC Alliance has acquired WA's Pier DC.