Lola Evans
17 Nov 2019, 17:13 GMT+10
SYDNEY, NSW, Australia - Equinix has opened a new data centre in the heart of Sydney, Australia, costing $160 million.
The data centre which has an initial capacity of 1,825 cabinets is situated in the inner Sydney suburb of Alexandria, about 2.5 miles from downtown Sydney.
The facility will house a total co-location space of 25,000 square metres and 9,225 cabinets when fully operational. The data centre is interconnected with Equinix's other IBX data centres in Sydney, making eight in all.
"Equinix is committed to continuously evolving our services to interconnect our customers at the digital edge, a critical part of digital transformation efforts of many enterprises, cloud providers and network providers," Jeremy Deutsch, President Asia-Pacific, Equinix said Friday.
"Expansions of our platform and innovations of our technology make us a trusted advisor for our customers to help accelerate their digital transformation journeys."
"I look forward to seeing Equinix continue our growth in Australia as part of our expansion plans in the region," Deutsch added.
Aside from SY5 housing 8 data centres in Sydney, Equinix now has sixteen data centres in Australia, with units in all the major state capital Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, and Sydney, and the national capital, Canberra.
Equinix has allocated $535 million for eleven new-build or expansion projects opening this year in key locations across Asia-Pacific.
"This expansion once again demonstrates our commitment to enhancing the local digital economy by enabling digital transformation in Australia," Glenn Uidam, Senior Director, IBX Operations, Equinix Australia said.
"Our vast array of services offered on Platform Equinix delivers increased value for customers, providing more capacity and interconnection capabilities for them to run more efficiently and provide more effective services for their users."
"We thank our customers for placing their trust in us to support their digital transformation and we look forward to continuing to work together and improve the state of doing business in Australia."
Get a daily dose of Michigan Sun news through our daily email, its complimentary and keeps you fully up to date with world and business news as well.
Publish news of your business, community or sports group, personnel appointments, major event and more by submitting a news release to Michigan Sun.
More InformationSYDNEY, Australia - Stocks were mainly higher in Asia on Wednesday, although in Japan they dipped marginally.China's Shanghai Composite gained ...
NEW YORK, New York - The looming U.S. tariffs proposed to be implemented on Sunday continued to keep buyers at ...
A great deal of research on agriculture in Africa is organised around the premise that intensification can take smallholder farmers ...
President Cyril Ramaphosa has said that sabotage contributed to recent uninterrupted load shedding.Ramaphosa is briefing the media on Eskom after ...
Boris Johnson's mantra for the 2019 election has been that a vote for the Conservatives is a vote to "get ...
PanARMENIAN.Net - Needham and Co was the fourth Wall Street brokerage in two months to cut its rating for Netflix ...
WASHINGTON - Leading House Democrats unveiled two articles of impeachment against U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday, accusing him of ...
SANTIAGO, Chile - There has been no sign of the Chilean Air Force C130 Hercules aircraft which went missing on ...
BELFAST, Northern Ireland - Rory McIlroy is the latest top golfer to give Saudi Arabia a wide berth, despite being ...
WASHINGTON, DC - The FBI had little evidence to launch the investigation into the Trump presidential campaign, according to U.S. ...
GENEVA, Switzerland - In the wake of recent protests in Iran, the top United Nations human rights official expressed alarm ...
New Delhi [India], Dec 11 (ANI): The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Wednesday approved ex-post facto ...