Macquarie has launched a secure data center in Canberra, designed to house classified Australian Government workloads. Macquarie Data Centres and Macquarie Government have launched the latest facility in the company’s highly secure data center portfolio, Intellicenter 5 (IC5) in Canberra, purpose-built to house the most highly classified Australian Government workloads. The A$17 million ‘bunker’ data […]
Orange Business Services, a network-native digital services company, has announced that it will design and build a new data centre to provide cloud services for Egypt’s ‘New Administrative Capital’. The project will be implemented in collaboration with Orange Egypt, who will supply the required infrastructure and services, following their appointment as the project’s prime contractor […]
Nutanix Solutions enables the City of Berkeley to increase the scalability and reliability of its data center infrastructure to meet the city’s growing technology need and continuity services. Nutanix, a leader in private cloud, hybrid and multicloud computing, has announced that the City of Berkeley has implemented Nutanix software solutions to increase the scalability and reliability […]
Macquarie Government has criticised the Australian Government’s ‘eggs-in-one-basket’ approach to data centres. An Australian provider of cloud and data centre services says the country’s government data is at serious risk with 79% of it housed with only one provider. Following the release of the Devolved Data Centre Decisions report from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute […]
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) selected the Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric (ECX Fabric) as it moved services to the cloud, cutting latency by two-thirds and slashing time to add new connections from months to hours. Business overview The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) is an executive agency of the UK government. Its […]
The UK’s Government’s Digital Infrastructure Minister, Matt Warman, is seeking views on changing regulations to make infrastructure sharing easier for broadband companies. This would open up access for broadband network operators to house their equipment on ‘passive’ infrastructure owned and used by other telecoms companies. Passive infrastructure includes utility ducts, poles, masts, pipes, inspection chambers, […]
Qatar has gone live with its first internet exchange to improve its global connectivity ahead of the 2022 Fifa World Cup. Launched by the country’s Communications Regulatory Authority (CRA), the Qatar Internet Exchange Point (QIXP) is established in MEEZA’s data centre in Doha, and will enable local networks to exchange information efficiently at a common […]
A data centre for the new Administrative Capital close to Cairo will be built and operated by Orange Egypt. The Administrative Capital for Urban Development (ACUD) has signed an agreement with Orange Egypt to build and operate the new administrative capital’s data centre and cloud computing platform. The data centre is an infrastructure milestone to […]
A government department in Jordan has completed its migration to Nutanix enterprise cloud software with the result that it can now manage all of its infrastructure, including storage, network and virtual machines, from a single location. Nutanix, a leader in enterprise cloud software, has announced that Jordan’s Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship (MoDEE) has […]
Chris Huggett, Senior Vice President, EMEA and India at Sungard AS, tells us how public cloud is creating new opportunities for digitisation due to the amount of data the public sector holds within the UK. The effects could be extremely positive on society if the data is exercised to its full potential. Spending £100 million […]
