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Synopsys acquires Intrinsic DC

Chip design software manufacturer Synopsys has acquired Intrinsic ID, a provider of Physical Unclonable Functions (PUF)-based IP that can be used in the design of system-on-chips (SoCs). Intrinsic IDF has developed PUF-based digital authentication technology that provides an additional level o...

March 25, 2024

Australia

WSI selects CDC Data Centres for digital tower deployment

Western Sydney International Airport (WSI) has selected CDC Data Centres for its digital tower deployment. WSI will be one of the first in Australia to run a digital air traffic control tower and has partnered with CDC, Frequentis Australasia, and Airservices to develop the system. WSI will de...

March 15, 2024

Sydney

Optus' head of networks resigns after lengthy outage in Australia

Optus' head of networks, Lambo Kanagaratnam, has resigned months after the Australian telco suffered a lengthy outage, becoming the second high-profile name at the company to depart after CEO Kelly Bayer resigned in November. The company's interim CEO Michael Ventor informed staff at the telc...

March 12, 2024

Australia

WSI selects CDC Data Centres for digital tower deployment

Western Sydney International Airport (WSI) has selected CDC Data Centres for its digital tower deployment. WSI will be one of the first in Australia to run a digital air traffic control tower and has partnered with CDC, Frequentis Australasia, and Airservices to develop the system. WSI will de...

March 12, 2024

Sydney

Iseek announces Scott Hicks as new CEO

Australian data center firm iseek has named Scott Hicks who was previously the CEO of YourDC as its new CEO. Prior to his history at YourDC, Hicks was managing director of local ISP Adam Internet from 1995 until its sale to iiNet/TPG in 2013. He is also the founder and owner of Astelec Group, ...

February 21, 2024

Australia

HMC Capital acquires StratCap

Australian investment firm HMC Capital announced this week that it has acquired 100 percent of North American digital infrastructure investor StratCap from private investors for $28.5 million. This deal will be completed once the full form legal agreements are met including obtaining regulato...

February 20, 2024

StratCap Data Centers

Iridium to extend satellite lifespan by five years

Satellite firm Iridium announced in its quarterly earnings call this month, Iridium said it will be extending the life of its Thales Alenia Space-made NEXT satellite fleet by five years. Iridium CEO Matt Desch said in the earnings call, “Based on the manufacturer's assessment, we've been using...

February 19, 2024

Australia

Australian Research Center to deploy Nvidia’s CUDA Quantum Platform

Australia’s Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre in Perth will deploying Nvidia’s CUDA Quantum computing platform at its National Supercomputing and Quantum Computing Innovation Hub. This platform is Nvidia's open-source hybrid quantum computing platform that uses quantum simulation tools and...

February 19, 2024

Australia

Diraq secures $15 million in a Series 2-A funding round

Quantum computing startup Diraq has raised $15 million in a Series 2-A funding round led by specialist investor Quantonation, a venture capital fund dedicated to quantum technologies, with participation from Higgins Family Investments and the University of New South Wales, Sydney. This latest ...

February 14, 2024

Sydney

Reserve Bank of Australia to relocate colocation facility

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) recently announced plans to decommission its head office data center in Sydney and relocate to a colocation facility. Moreso, other RBA data centers will get an all-new core infrastructure, and the Bank will migrate all of its applications and workloads to t...

January 08, 2024

Australia

Rest Super invests in Quinbrook data center

Australian superannuation fund Rest Super announced this week that it is investing $656 million in a data center and battery storage project from Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners in Brisbane. This investment will expose it to several assets, including solar and battery projects, green data s...

November 25, 2023

Australia

Sydney, Australia data facility occupied by TPG Telecom available for purchase

TPG Telecom is selling part of its Sydney, Australia, data center and office space. Interest submissions can be submitted to Colliers for 30 Ross Street in the Forest Lodge neighborhood until October 3. The building is an "infrastructure-quality asset" with a working data center and extra offi...

September 06, 2023

Australia

AirTrunk begins the 70MW expansion of the SYD2 facility in Sydney, Australia

AirTrunk, an APAC data center developer, has begun constructing a 70MW expansion to one of its Sydney, Australia campuses. The organization announced this week that construction has begun on the final two stages of its SYD2 facility. The two-phase development is anticipated to be completed in...

June 16, 2023

AirTrunk Sydney SYD2

Macquarie Data Centres and Console Connect partner for new Point of Presence in Sydney

Macquarie Data Centers has announced that it has partnered with Console Connect to add a new Point of Presence in Sydney. Through the partnership, Console Connect’s Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) platform will be available at the Macquarie Data Centres campus in Macquarie Park, Sydney. The two ha...

May 03, 2023

Sydney

Glenside Data Centre in Adelaide, Australia, Catches Fire

A fire has started at the Glenside Data Centre in Adelaide, Australia. Among other government services, the event led to the failure of South Australia's state hospitals' electronic medical records system. The primary data center for the state government is located in Glenside. The electrical ...

April 19, 2023

Adelaide

Varonis opens Australia data center in line with national data sovereignty rules

Varonis has announced that it has opened its first data center in Australia to support Varonis' customers and to better demonstrate compliance with national data sovereignty rules, a regulatory trend which is on the rise.Varonis outlined that in light of a wave of ransomware attacks on Austral...

April 12, 2023

Australia

Vocus’ Melbourne Data Center Experiences Downtime Due to a UPS Issue

An outage was brought on by a UPS issue at a Melbourne, Australia-based Vocus data center. Recently, Vocus reported a "major incident" at its VDC-MEL03 data center, located at 530 Collins Street in Melbourne, Victoria, on its status page. On-site power had been out between 09:02 and 09:27 A...

March 14, 2023

Vocus Melbourne (55 King) [Site Closed]

Lacework announces availability of Sydney based data center

Lacework has announced the availability of its new cloud data center in Sydney, New South Wales, which is pegged to provide organizations with lower latencies in Australia and New Zealand, with better support. Richard Davies, Area Director at Lacework, said that as the Australia and New Zealan...

March 01, 2023

Sydney

Telstra Exchange Facility and Property for Sale Near Melbourne, Australia.

Under a sale-leaseback agreement, Telstra is offering a minor exchange facility in the environs of Melbourne for sale. The east Melbourne neighborhood of Rowville's 12 Lambourne Avenue is being put up for sale by the Australian telecom. A brick structure of 1,430 square feet on one story, sitt...

February 16, 2023

Melbourne

Australia's Spirit Technology Solutions Announces Decision to Sell Network and Data Center Assets to Maret Group

Spirit Technology Solutions has announced that it will sell its network and data center assets to Maret. The Australian communication provider revealed that it would transfer the assets to Maret but didn’t specify the data center assets it would be transferring. Sprint Technology would receive...

December 02, 2022

Australia

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