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By Justin Hendry on Apr 7, 2021 12:40PM As Global Switch migration gets underway. The Department of Home Affairs has struck a new five-year data centre hosting deal with Canberra Data Centres to support its migration from Global Switch’s Sydney-based data centre. The $6.3 million contract, published last week, will allow the department to shift its remaining unclassified and protected-level data from the Chinese-owned facility by July 2022. Home Affai...

By Justin Hendry on Feb 17, 2021 12:35PM Most sensitive data already out. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has defended the Department of Defence’s decision to delay its exit from Global Switch’s Sydney-based data centre after plans to leave fell short last year. The decision – which  It signed a new $53.5 million property lease with Global Switch in October 2020, while at the same time extending a separate property lease under an existing deal at ...

  Exclusive: Millions of Australias tax and company files are being held by a Chinese-owned centre, with the Government agencies struggling to find a new home for its servers. As detailed yesterday, the Defence Department was told in 2016 by then treasurer Scott Morrison it had to look for alternatives after Global Switch (GSU) data centre was sold off to a Chinese data firm. There were fears Australias sovereignty and secrets were at risk by the sell off, from a United Kingdom consortium t...

‘Quite shocked’: Defence give secrets to China Department of Defence secrets have now been signed over to a China-owned data storage centre despite security fears. Politics by Charles Miranda Premium Content Subscriber only Defence has signed over the storage of its secrets to a Chinese-owned company in defiance of apparent orders from the federal government that the millions of sensitive real-time files be urgently moved out. For years, data...

A Chinese-owned data storage company will house files for the Australian Defence Force, sparking fears the global superpower could easily access Australias military secrets.   The parent company of data firm Global Switch, Aldersgate Investments, sold 49 per cent of its stake to Chinese consortium Elegant Jubilee in 2016. At the time then-treasurer Scott Morrison said all military documents would be phased out of the storage facility in Ultimo, Sydney, by 2020. Instead the contract, which was...

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Reneges on planned 2020 departure pledge.

The Australian Securities and Investments Commissions has signed a five-year, $4.2 million deal with Canberra Data Centres for hosting. ASIC, the national corporate regulator, told CRN that the deal was for the provision of data centre space and services at CDC’s Eastern Creek data centre in Western Sydney.  The contract, which commenced in December 2020 and runs through to the end of 2025, replaces a Global Switch contract which is set to expire in August 2023, according to an ASIC spokespe...