Articles from iTnews Australia

Australian Carbon tax casts shadow over local data centre and cloud providers

Explore iTnews Australia (Jul 10 2011) Cap and Trade , Carbon Tax , Emissions

The Australian Federal Government has announced a carbon tax of $23 per tonne effective from July 1 next year. Designed to slash the nation’s carbon emissions by 159 million tonnes a year, the tax will apply to Australia’s top 500 polluters under a two-phase fixed and flexible scheme. Under the first phase, carbon emitters will be able buy as many permits as required at the fixed price, which will rise 2.5 per cent each year until 2015 to $25.40. (Read Full Article)

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NextDC reveals data centre equipment plans

Explore iTnews Australia (Mar 14 2011) Power and Cooling

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Tier 5 launches modular data centre

Explore iTnews Australia (Nov 9 2010) Construction , Power and Cooling

Australian data centre start-up Tier 5 today launched a multi-million dollar facility in Adelaide that is the first in the world to utilise Dell's third generation of modular data centre technology. As reported exclusively by iTnews in March, the Tier 5 team - led by Hostworks founder Marty Gauvin - has been constructing an 8mW data centre within a 4000 square metre building and attached 15,000 square metre parcel of land at what used to be Adelaide's Mitsubishi car manufacturing plant. (Read Full Article)

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Inside Brisbane's iseek data centre (photos)

Explore iTnews Australia (Aug 17 2010)

Brisbane-based iseek has opened the doors to what it claims is one of Australia's most energy efficient data centres. The $44 million dollar facility [see photo gallery, right] is one of the country's first data centres to use free cooling (or hybrid cooling) where filtered air is sourced outdoors as opposed to traditional methods of using recycled hot air emitted from the equipment. "In 2007 the entire information and communication technologies (ICT) sector was estimated to be responsible for two per cent of global carbon emissions", said Queensland Premier Anna Bligh at the official opening of the facility in Brisbane late last week. (Read Full Article)

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Photos: Inside the Equinix San Jose data centre

Explore iTnews Australia (Jul 11 2010) Construction , Power and Cooling

Equinix has confirmed that its forthcoming SV5 data centre at San Jose will adhere to green construction standards and use ‘free cooling’ technology. The new International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre, located adjacent to the company’s flagship SV1 facility, will cost approximately US$145 million to construct (see photo gallery right). iTnews understands that several variations to the standard non-raised floor in a hot/cold aisle configuration that is a staple of Equinix centres globally are under consideration for SV5 but that no decisions have been taken. (Read Full Article)

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Intervolve to open new Adelaide data centre

Explore iTnews Australia (Jun 22 2010) Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing

Intervolve will open a 1,200 square metre data centre in Adelaide's northern suburbs later this year that will support colocation, managed services and hosting. The centre will utilise Emicon free cooling chiller systems and APC kit including redundant uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), air conditioning systems, rack enclosures and power distribution units (PDUs). Technical operations director Chris Macko said the centre would be serviced by redundant fibre and microwave services to ensure data transit services remained operational in the event of a fibre cut. (Read Full Article)

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Telstra planning to exit Global Switch data centre

Explore iTnews Australia (Jun 3 2010) Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing

EXCLUSIVE: Telstra is considering pulling a large fleet of servers housed within Sydney's giant Global Switch data centre as it consolidates its data centre footprint. Telstra told journalists at a Technology Briefing today that it aims to consolidate its three current datacentres (as well as IT systems placed in a half dozen smaller facilities) down to two centralised datacentres - one in the Sydney business district of St Leonards and another in Clayton, Melbourne, currently under construction. "The major, big data centres - the two data centres [with a] complete virtualised environment [for] cloud offerings, will be in Clayton and St Leonards, here in Sydney," said Telstra chief operations officer, Michael Rocca [see video below], to the agreement of two of his colleagues. (Read Full Article)

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E3 builds high density data centre in Sydney

Explore iTnews Australia (Nov 8 2009) Construction , Power and Cooling

Data centre operator E3 Networks is close to completing the construction of a high density data centre in Sydney, with an adjacent larger facility due to come online in June 2010. The company - which already operates data centres at capacity in Melbourne and Brisbane under the 'Pegasus' brand - is building a data centre facility in the inner Sydney industrial hub of Alexandria, over four stages, with the first two stages due to come online on December 7. The first two stages consist of two floors housed within the smaller of two buildings on the site - the bottom floor measuring 400 square metres of computing space and the top floor 380 square metres (due to columns on the upper level). (Read Full Article)

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Fujitsu eyes Western Sydney for new data centre

Explore iTnews Australia (Nov 6 2009) Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing , Servers

IT services powerhouse Fujitsu is studying areas of Western Sydney in the hunt for real estate boasting sufficient power to build a new data centre. Fujitsu, which is already building new data centres in both Perth and Melbourne, is seeking to address a major shortage in data centre space in Sydney. Fujitsu CEO Rod Vawdrey told iTnews at the launch of the company's cloud computing play that he estimates there is a "50,000 square metre shortage [in Australia] when it comes to data centre space." (Read Full Article)

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Aussie data centres brace for dust storm barrage

Explore iTnews Australia (Sep 24 2009) Power and Cooling

Data centres in Sydney and Brisbane have shut off external ventilation systems, restricted loading dock access and attended false alarms after a major dust storm choked the cities today. Macquarie Telecom, Equinix, ac3, manageNET and AAPT outlined a number of preventative measures taken in their respective data centres to prevent dust ingress. At least two major firms - Optus and CBA - confirmed false alarms had been set off in Sydney facilities due to high winds and dust particles in the air. (Read Full Article)

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NAB trials off-grid power and Kyoto cooling in data centre

Explore iTnews Australia (May 18 2009) Power and Cooling , Servers

Allen is also investigating the possibility of using 'free cooling' to reduce the power consumption of NAB's data centre further. It is estimated that most organisations use as much carbon on the cooling of the data centre as the running of the ... (Read Full Article)

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