Datadog’s plans for Australia & New Zealand and the thinking behind their first data center
Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) Inc.’s plans to locate a data center in Australia were announced last week (April 2nd, 2025). Datadog provides monitoring and security platform for cloud applications and all existing Datadog products will be available from the new data center. The data center will be built on AWS, and will be Datadog’s first in […]
Bloomberg reports that Blackstone could sell two of AirTrunk’s data centers in Australia
Bloomberg, has reported that Blackstone is considering the sale of two of AirTrunk’s Australian data centers. Blackstone bought AirTrunk in a deal worth $16.1 billion last year, but is now reported to be considering selling the firm’s facilities in Sydney and Melbourne. The sale of the two data centers could raise up to AU$4 billion […]
Legrand announces the acquisition of Computer Room Solutions (CRS) in Australia
Legrand is pursuing its active bolt-on acquisition strategy with today’s announcement of Computer Room Solutions (CRS). Computer Room Solutions (CRS) is a leading player in the design, development, manufacturing and commissioning of white space infrastructure for datacenters (including structural ceilings, airflow optimization containment, and mechanical walls). Based in Mascot, Sydney, CRS employes nearly 80 people […]
The Impact of AI on Digital Infrastructure: Sumit Mukhija, Chief Executive Officer, DCI Data Centers
Background Sumit Mukhija, the Chief Executive Officer of DCI Data Centers will be speaking on how AI is impacting digital infrastructure at the Melbourne Cloud and Datacenter Convention on 3rd April. He speaks on the basis of more than three decades in the industry and experience of working for leading companies such as ST GDC […]
Interview with Donny Gunadi: The Australian data center industry in profile
Please tell us a bit about your career to date and how you got to where you are today My education and career background is actually in telecommunication. I started my career working with equipment vendors, such as Siemens, Fujitsu, Nokia, Ericsson, and then somewhere along the way, I took a leap to work on […]
Nabeel Mahmood: Cloud & Datacenter Convention, Melbourne, 3rd April 2025
Nabeel Mahmood will be delivering the Opening Keynote at our Cloud & Datacenter Convention (CENTREPIECE at Melbourne Park, 3rd April 2025). His Keynote on “Sustainability across digital infrastructure – what we have learned so far” will consider a number of key factors – the evolution of ‘sustainability’, how the transformation of digital infrastructure is impacting […]
AirTrunk turns 10, marking the celebration with social impact program launch
From startup to the biggest global data centre deal in under a decade, AirTrunk marks 10 years of hyperscale growth with the launch of new social impact partnerships [Sydney, 20 March 2025] – Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ) hyperscale data centre specialist, AirTrunk has marked its first 10 years with a celebration of its top […]
Elizabeth Aris: “Old telecom versus new telecom”: how Australia’s comms and data eco-system will transform into the future [Interconnect World Melbourne, 3rd April 2025]
Elizabeth Aris is a leader in the fields of technology and telecoms. She is currently (among a number of other non-directorial roles), the Chairman of Astrotel, a telecommunications company targeted specifically at the enterprise and government markets. Her career path to date has taken in retail banking, technology and telecommunications, working in sales, marketing, product […]
BAI Communications CTO: private 5G networks have hit a tipping point
This week, [10-14 March] South Korea hosts 3GPP’s workshop and technical meeting on 6G which will mark the first official discussions on the so-called next-generation mobile standard [1]. However, despite the usual mobile glitz at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier this month, the mood among operators is pessimistic around return on investment in 5G, […]
Australia’s data centre investment pipeline to reach USD 15.51 billion
Global commercial real estate company Cushman & Wakefield recently reported in its H2 2024 Asia Pacific Data Centre Market Update [1] that around USD 116 billion will be needed to build out the existing colocation data centre pipeline across the region in the coming five to seven years as demand for the sector grows. Of […]