OpenText President and CEO Mark J. Barrenechea, announcing the new data centre at the company's Innovation Day event in Sydney this week, said the centre would help the company’s Australian customers to address data security, “not only from a technical standpoint, but also from a data sovereignty perspective."
Barrenechea said the centre would enable customers to access a variety of high-performance Enterprise Information Management (EIM) applications “from a locally hosted OpenText Cloud environment.”
“For Australian public sector organisations and highly regulated industries such as financial services, this allows data to remain ‘in-country’,” Barrenechea said.
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The new facility was commissioned in last month and will offer a variety of enterprise-class cloud computing services and applications for securely managing, exchanging and socialising enterprise information, including managed hosting services, Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Digital Asset Management (DAM) solutions.
The establishment of the new data centre facility in Sydney follows OpenText's acquisition last month of GXS Group, a leader in business-to-business (B2B) cloud integration.
Barrenechea said the acquisition reinforces OpenText's “leadership in EIM by combining OpenText's Information Exchange portfolio of Managed File Transfer, Secure E-mail, FAX,Capture and EDI with GXS's portfolio of cloud-based B2B integration services and managed services.”
Graham Pullen, Senior Vice President Asia Pacific, OpenText, said OpenText's investment in an Australian data centre complements the existing nine data centres across the USA and Europe. “Over 3,000 customers globally have deployed OpenText cloud solutions and with the acquisition of GXS the company expects greater adoption of the OpenText EIM cloud platform.”
"OpenText Cloud Services provides a comprehensive range of end-to-end solutions by leveraging local and global OpenText Cloud infrastructure, specialist support teams and extensive consulting experience across the OpenText EIM solutions.
"We look forward to working with Australian customers in deploying the range of OpenText Cloud Services to help them maximise the value of their information and minimise information management risk."
