Data Centre Facilities Panel – first lease signed
The Department of Finance and Deregulation has signed the first lease through the whole of government Data Centre Facilities Panel (Panel). The lease is with Canberra Data Centres in Hume, and is valued at $45.6 million over the 10 year term of the lease.
Finance has entered the lease on behalf of a consortium of agencies to enable access to the benefits of a modern data centre at whole of government pricing. Data Centres are secure facilities and to support their physical security, the agencies involved will not be named.
We’ll include a link to the AusTender notice when it becomes available.
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Data Centre as a Service – industry briefing session 2 May 2012
As foreshadowed, I’d like to invite representatives from industry to attend a briefing session on the Data Centre as a Service (DCaaS) project at 4pm on Wednesday, 2 May 2012, in Canberra.
Update 9/5/12: The on-demand version of the webcast is now available.
The transcript is available for download here:
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Streamlining Procurement: Data Centre as a Service
Data Centre as a Service (DCaaS) is the next tranche of work in the Data Centre Strategy. We have been putting a lot of thought into how we can simplify procurement of and reduce transaction costs for cloud and cloud-like services while ensuring that we still meet the necessary procurement requirements. Today’s post is the outcome of this work. Read more
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Data Centre Presentation November 2011
Hi everyone
Earlier this month I presented to agencies and industry regarding the progress of the Australian Government Data Centre Strategy. Particular focus of the presentation was on the Data Centre Panels (Facilities and Migration Services). I also briefly touched on the Data Centre Optimisation Target Policy and referred to the Data Centre as a Service industry briefing which was held on 11 November 2011. Read more
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Data Centre as a Service: Industry Briefing Presentation
Hello,
Thank you to everyone who came to the Industry Briefing today. We had a great turnout. 
I invite companies interested in delivering an Industry Presentation to register on AusTender (login required). Registration closes on 22 November 2011. No late registrations will be accepted due to our tight time frame. Read more
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Data Centre as a Service – Industry Briefing
Hi everyone
As previously foreshadowed, I would like to invite representatives from industry to attend a briefing session to be held on Friday, 11 November 2011. Registration is through Austender. Registration closes on Monday, 7 November 2011. Read more
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Industry consultation: Data Centre as a Service (DCaaS)
Hi everyone,
The purpose of this post is to alert you to our upcoming industry consultation on Data Centre as a Service (DCaaS). This is one of the projects under the Australian Government Data Centre Strategy 2010-25 (Strategy). Earlier this year, in an update on the Data Centre Program, I noted that we would engage industry this calendar year regarding DCaaS. Read more
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Greenfield sites added to Data Centre Facilities Panel
I am pleased to tell you that these Greenfield facilities are being added to the panel for the provision of data centres to Australian Government agencies:
- Australian Data Centres (Mitchell, ACT)
- Enterprise Data Corporation (Bella Vista, NSW)
- Fujitsu (Greystanes, NSW and Fyshwick, ACT)
- Global Switch (Ultimo, NSW)
- Macquarie Telecom (two sites at North Ryde, NSW) and
- Metronode (Derrimut, VIC and Mitchell, ACT)
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Data Centre Program Update
Since the Australian Government Data Centre Strategy 2010-25 was announced in March 2010, the Data Centre Migration Services Panel and Data Centre Facilities panel have been established. The Data Centre Facilities Panel will be expanded to include greenfield sites, more information will be provided later. Read more
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Shed services: a data centres presentation
Here is the presentation about the government’s data centre strategy that John Sheridan gave today at Gartner’s Infrastructure Operations and Data Centre summit, in PDF (1.18MB) and DOC (2.84MB) formats. My team is also doing up responses to the questions asked during and after the presentation, and we should post those soon.
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