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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 governmen...

NEXTDC announce zero latency access to Google Cloud Melbourne region BRISBANE, Australia - 29 July 2021. With the formal launch of Googles 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, an...

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 Googles high-performance global network delivering low latency and high performance of cloud-based workloads. Google Cloud delivers almost $3.2 billion in annual gross benef...

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.     Aft...

iTWire Wednesday, 07 July 2021 12:06 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure passes IRAP assessment Shares Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has successfully completed an assessment against the Information Security Manual (ISM) Protected controls. Oracle’s Sydney and Melbourne Cloud regions were assessed by an independent assessor under the Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP). 37 OCI services were covered. This follows the November 2020 assessment at Protected level of...