Australia: 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 that core.

According to a Tender published in December 2023, and set to close on February 2, 2024, this process is expected to take about three years. The tender notes, “The CIM program establishes a new colocation data center, designs and deploys new core infrastructure to all of the bank’s data centers, migrates the bank’s application workloads to the new core infrastructure (both within data centers and between data centers) and decommissions the HO [head office] data center.”

It adds, “The timeline for the CIM Program addresses and accommodates the key dependencies associated with end-of-life issues with the current core infrastructure, and the head office 65 Martin Place (65MP, Sydney, New South Wales) workplace construction program. The timeline for this project is reasonably tight.”