July 12, 2024 Australia
Tape Ark which specializes in mass migration of data stored on tape to the cloud has been awarded a three-year deal to be the Ballet's 'Historical Digital Preservation Partner.' In preparation for the West Australian Ballet's 75th anniversary which will fall in 2027, Tape Ark is set to migrate...
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July 08, 2024 Australia
Industrial real estate firm ESR is looking to sell 1.5 hectares at 44-50 Waterloo Rd, which it acquired in 2021 from an AMP Capital fund for AU$71m, and had been earmarked for a data center development. The parcel is currently home to two office and industrial buildings partly occupied by...
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June 27, 2024 Australia
Australia's national science agency CSIRO has launched its Virga high-performance computing (HPC) cluster which comprises of Dell PowerEdge XE9640 servers containing Intel Xeon processors, Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPU accelerators with 94GB of high-bandwidth memory per GPU, and a Nvidia...
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June 26, 2024 Australia
Australia's national science agency CSIRO is partnering with one of Alphabet’s skunkworks projects to develop a new type of smart inverter project to better handle renewable energy on the grid through greater real-time visibility and more simulation capabilities.The prototype smart inverter was...
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June 05, 2024 Australia
Micro-data center firm Zella DC is partnering with network firm Laser Light to deploy its pods across Australia and globally. Laser Light will be deploying a number of Zella modules to host its networking services as Laser Light and Halo are looking to create a global networking platform – a...
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May 31, 2024 Australia
A 30-meter 4G telecom tower in Mullumbimby, Australia owned by telco Optus, was destroyed on May 18. The New South Wales Police estimating that this destruction most likely caused by vandals occurred “sometime between 12am and 8pm."Tweed-Byron Police District Inspector Matt Woods said they...
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May 07, 2024 Australia
Australian data center firm DXN has signed a US$3.8 million contract to deliver four cable landing stations for the East Micronesia Cable System (EMCS), expected to be complete in Q1 of 2025. This would be the first submarine cable connection for the islands of Tarawa, Nauru, and Kosrae. Shalini...
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April 18, 2024 Australia
Australian logistics firm Team Global Express has migrated to the cloud with help from Infosys in a program which required moving more than 300 application. This move was achieved without any business impact to the 4,000+ users or to network integration spread over 100 sites. Danny Gravell, CIO...
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April 16, 2024 Australia
Cooling company Accelsius, which provides two-phase direct-to-chip liquid cooling systems, this week officially announced the launch of its new two-phase cooling system, NeuCool, its in-rack solution. The company says NeuCool offers capacity that has been tested beyond 1,500 watts per server chip...
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April 09, 2024 Australia
Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has announced that it is set to start work on a AU$2.5 billion ($1.7bn) data center campus in Queensland, Australia. The first phase of development at the campus, known as Supernode, will see a 250MW battery energy storage system (BESS) installed at the site. The...
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March 25, 2024 Australia
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 of...
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March 15, 2024 Sydney
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...
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March 12, 2024 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 telco...
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March 12, 2024 Sydney
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...
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February 21, 2024 Australia
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, a...
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February 20, 2024 Australia
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 regulatory...
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February 19, 2024 Australia
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 a...
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February 19, 2024 Australia
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...
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February 14, 2024 Sydney
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...
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January 08, 2024 Australia
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 that...
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