Australian IT services provider iseek Communications announced this week it has invested in a $100 million Tier III facility at Gore Hill Business Park in North Sydney.
Sydney has become increasingly popular in data center activity in recent years. Both Rackspace and Amazon have accounced their own data center builds in the past few months.
iseek?s Gore Hill Business Park data center comes approximately two years following the opening of its Brisbane Export Park facility.
The expansion of iseek?s national network was driven by a ?significant? government and enterprise customer base in Sydney seeking rack space, said iseek managing director Jason Gomersall.
?A recent Gartner report suggests that global spending on enterprise Cloud will grow from $US95 billion in 2011 to $US205 billion by 2016, and that overall IT spend will increase by 4.4 percent in 2013,? said Gomersall. ?This market growth is helping drive demand for cutting edge data center facilities that can meet the need of companies for Australian IT infrastructure.?
Fourty percent of the data center space has already been leased, drawing customers from the financial services, engineering and resources sectors.
In addition to the new Sydney location, iseek operates three data centers at Brisbane Export Park.
The company said it has no plans to expand into other regions of Australia other than New South Wales at the time, but iseek will open another large scale data center in Brisbane by the end of 2013.
The new Syndey data center will offer traditional data center and colocation services, along with private network solutions, and a range of complementary services to customers including 24-hour access, boardrooms, and staging rooms.
Talk back: Are you currently offering data center services in Australia? Are you seeing demand for services there? Let us know in the comments.
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Justin Lee has been a staff analyst with theWHIR since 2004. He writes about a range of web hosting and IT-related issues facing the industry on the WHIR website, as well the print version of the WHIR magazine. Follow him on Twitter @Justin_theWHIR.
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