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Enterprise IT, Featured, News - Wednesday, May 16, 2012 14:32 - 10 Comments
NSW finalises colossal datacentre consolidation
news The New South Wales State Government this week announced the Leighton subsidiary Metronode as the winner of its long-running and wide-ranging datacentre overhaul project, with the company to construct two new substantial facilities which will allow the state to consolidate its IT operations drastically.
A number of the state’s departments and agencies are currently believed to be hosting datacentre infrastructure in dilapidated facilities across Sydney and the rest of the state, often in back-office environments which are not consistent with modern datacentre practice. The state’s datacentre consolidation strategy — which has been under way for a number of years — will see it shift that IT infrastructure into two new, purpose-build datacentre facilities to be built by Metronode in Silverwater in Sydney and Unanderra (on the South Coast).
“The two centres will provide up to 9MW each of IT load allowing the NSW Government to consolidate Government datacentres and reduce unnecessary technologies used in its daily operations, with the decommissioning of existing data capacity to begin once the new facilities are complete,” said NSW Minister for Finance & Services Greg Pearce in a statement issued yesterday. “Much of the Government’s existing capacity is out-dated, inefficient and does not deliver a viable, cost-effective service for government agencies. These will be gradually closed and data migrated to the new centres as they open, enabling significant cost savings.”








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