Data infrastructure company Equinix has unveiled the availability of AWS Direct Connect, enabling up to 100Gbps capacity directly to the new Melbourne.
NextDC announced plans to open a 300MW data centre site in Western Sydney.
For comparison, the data centre operator’s current Sydney data centres have a combined IT load capacity of 126MW with its S1 at 16MW, S2 at 30MW and S3 (still under development) at 80MW.
The company said in a statement that the new site will provide data centre services to hyperscale cloud providers in a new ‘Availability Zone’ within the Sydney market, and will also play a role in enabling enterprise and government customers to scale their critical infrastructure platforms in the region.
S4 will be located in Horsley park, 42 kilometres west of the Sydney CBD on a 124,000sqm site.
NEXTDC announce zero latency access to Google Cloud Melbourne region
BRISBANE, Australia - 29 July 2021. With the formal launch of Google s new Melbourne Cloud Zone, NEXTDC (ASX: NXT) announce the availability of zero latency data exchanges to Google Cloud from their M2 Melbourne data centre.
Today, Google announced the general availability of their new cloud zone for Melbourne. Helping to further enable the journey to Hybrid Cloud, government and enterprise organisations can connect locally, and natively to Google Cloud s Melbourne zone from M2.
M2 Melbourne is the newest cloud hosting location for Google Cloud, offering two Google Interconnect access that offer organisations low-latency, secure access directly to the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) from anywhere in Australia.
iTWire Wednesday, 28 July 2021 11:39 Google Cloud opens new Melbourne region Featured
Google today announced the opening of a new Melbourne region here in Australia. This joins the Sydney region that opened in 2017 and becomes the 27th Google Cloud region globally.
The Melbourne region is connected via Google s high-performance global network delivering low latency and high performance of cloud-based workloads.
Google Cloud delivers almost $3.2 billion in annual gross benefits to businesses and consumers in Australia, including $686 million to customers and $698 million to Google partners.
The benefits of a second Google Cloud region in Australia include improved business continuity planning with distributed and secure infrastructure needed to meet disaster recovery requirements, all while maintaining data sovereignty on-shore.
Simon Kaye has rejoined Oracle Australia, resuming his previous role as director of cloud transformation and innovation, after leaving the company three years ago.
According to an Oracle spokesperson, Kaye is rejoining under the director of strategic sales Terry Maloney, who assumed that role earlier this year, and will be focused on large strategic projects with enterprise and government customers.
Kaye’s role will be to work alongside partners to land and deliver these projects.
After leaving the company, Kaye stayed within the Oracle ecosystem – first as the director of cloud technology solutions for Accenture and then as the director of digital and cloud client solutions for NCS, both Oracle channel partners.