TransACT unveils third data centre

ADC's announcement followed news from Fujitsu that it will build a new data centre in Perth, Western Australia and also reports that Melbourne, Sydney and Wollongong could play host to new world-class data centres as part of investment plans by a joint venture group that includes the company behind the Polaris facility in Queensland.

Analyst firm, IDC, has described Australia has having some of the oldest data centres in the Asia Pacific region. It says this "is significant in that old data centres are more expensive to maintain, less reliable and often unable to cope with the demands placed on them by modern servers and storage".

Check out photos of HP's data centre in Sydney or Internode's facility in South Australia.

For more information on the Australian Data Centre landscape head to the Computerworld Data Centre Directory.