HP announces new Sydney data centre

The investment - part of a $US1 billion transformation to retire legacy assets and build new, modernised facilities - will help the vendor capture more of the growing spend on Cloud computing services, application modernisation and data centre transformation.

The data centre will be based on HP's own Converged Infrastructure, which according to the vendor, will integrate server, storage, networking and management resources into a modular and adaptable design.

Communications minister, Senator Stephen Conroy, said the new data centre would furthermore drive Australia's participation and competiveness in the digital economy.

"The data centre will provide vital infrastructure that will, among other things, allow more Australian businesses to move their IT operations to cloud computing, thereby reducing costs and improving information sharing," Conroy said in a statement.

Peter Czeti, manager infrastructure and client services at the CSIRO, as well spoke with Computerworld Australia about how to draft and implement a three- to four-year data centre consolidation plan, and the impact of cloud computing and virtualisation on data centres.

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