Melbourne: IOT Data Centres ("IOTDC"), announce the acquisition of a new facility in Port Melbourne which will be added to the IOTDC mesh. The IOTDC mesh is a network of geographically distributed facilities through which IOTDC offers community integrated data centre services. This facility is the second in the IOTDC pipeline following closely after the recently announced project in Darwin. The acquisition allows IOTDC to offer services to customers looking to immediately leverage capability in Victoria and Northern Territory. Capability in other jurisdictions will be available soon in Queensland and Western Australia.
IOTDC announces the opening of its new facility in Port Melbourne in the coming month. This state-of-the-art facility will provide up to 2MW of data centre capacity in a concurrently maintainable configuration which will be open to accept customers as early as the 1st Jul 2020.
As an extension of the IOTDC mesh, which includes the recent facility announced in Darwin, the capability in Melbourne will cater for customers looking for cost effective data centre services or robust disaster recovery/business continuity capability. Although not independently certified with an Uptime Institute Tier 3 credential, the Port Melbourne facility will be audited as concurrently maintainable to provide customers surety of the quality of services provided.
TotalSecure's Ken Leung, a key partner of IOTDC who specialises in Security services says "Audits and certifications are a critical component of making sure that the service a customer has acquired is in fact what they have paid for and is in fact as secure and robust as claimed. It's easy to claim concurrently maintainable or Tier 3, but without an independent review, how do you really know how safe your critical data is? This is one of the areas we regularly flag when reviewing client vulnerabilities."
IOTDC's future plan includes additional facilities in Victoria and Northern Territory but more importantly a number of facilities in Queensland, WA and the ACT. These locations have all been selected to enable customers to take advantage of key investments by its partners into domestic and international backhaul capability. This includes the Northern Territory Government's Terabit Territory, new international submarine capacity being brought online and the recent commitments to modernizing infrastructure in critical locations around the country.
On the topic of connectivity to the edge, Robert Linsdell, Managing Director of Vertiv Australia and New Zealand, the company that supplies power and thermal infrastructure and services for the site, says: "Customers are realising the bandwidth for data we have at our disposal cannot cope with the demand of today, let alone the future. The innovative applications and projects being led by enterprises and data centre providers are improving Australia's interconnectivity and capacity, particularly in regional cities and edge locations, and driving our economy and digital future. We anticipate the demand for fast internet coupled with low-latency data will explode during the next five-to-ten years, fuelled by 5G and hybrid IT connectivity."
Customers with immediate needs for certified or arm's length qualified data centre services in Victoria and the NT; or customers looking to secure what is expected to be quick moving capacity in these regions can register their interest with IOTDC immediately.
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