IT solutions provider Dell Australia confirmed in a quarterly business briefing Friday that its planned Australian data center won’t be a “long time away”, according to a report by Computer World.
Australia continues to be highly active in data center builds in recent months, with data center builds by Rackspace, Amazon, and iseek Communications springing up in the past year.
Dell first revealed back in March of 2011 its plans for a massive global data center buildout spanning 10 countries, starting with a new data center in Australia.
The data center buildout initiative would support the demands for its cloud computing services.
Then in August 2011, New Zealand managing director Joe Kremer said that the company was currently investigating sites for the data center, although he would not specify what state of the data center location.
He also confirmed that Dell was hiring staff for a cloud services team, and that the company would use the data center to provide colocation, web hosting, and cloud-based on-demand storage services.
Dell has launched data center capabilities in Massachusetts, US and Slough, UK, with construction on the Australian data center nearing completion, said Kremer.
The data center will offer Dell’s own hardware as well as giving those customers the option to relocate their non-Dell hardware.
Dell will offer the same service levels to both kinds of customers so long as they are within the capabilities of rival hardware, said Kremer.
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