SolarWinds has announced the launch of its first IT service management (ITSM) data centre in Australia for SolarWinds Service Desk customers.

The data centre will support ANZ organisations with better customer experience and low latency while maintaining data sovereignty and privacy requirements.

"IDC expects data sovereignty and industry compliance considerations to be of increasing importance to decisions about IT architectures."

Australian organisations that jumped head-first into public cloud are quickly finding costs are spiralling out of control and concerns for data protection and sovereignty are greater than ever.

The certification makes Macquarie the first company to have all its data centres and cloud services Certified Strategic under DTA's Certification Framework.

Following an increased call for sovereign controls, the integration enables organisations to retain control of their encryption keys when migrating data to the AWS cloud.

It will act as Australia’s first advanced manufacturing hub, producing ICT componentry for SoftIron’s HyperCloud Intelligent Cloud Fabric.

"Data centres play an important role in the management of trust around data, as part of a much larger ‘ecosystem of trust."

Australian data centre as a service provider has officially opened S3, its largest Sydney development to date. 

A Wellington cloud services provider says Google's claim it will offer New Zealanders complete control over their own data is not true.

Macquarie Telecom Group has become a member of the VMware Sovereign Cloud initiative, reflecting the company’s commitment to sovereign IT capability.

According to Twilio's new State of Personalisation Report 2022, 62% of consumers expect personalisation from brands, and yet only 40% trust brands to use their data responsibly and keep it safe.

Modern organisations create and rely upon an enormous volume of content, and digital records make up a significant proportion of that content.

Macquarie Data Centres and Macquarie Government hosted Australia's Prime Minister to open the company’s Intellicentre 3 East hyperscale data centre.

New Zealand cloud provider Catalyst Cloud has been awarded an All-of-Government Cloud Framework Agreement with Te Tari Taiwhenua Department of Internal Affairs. 

Cloudera is bringing new data protection capabilities to customers in Australia with Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) Public Cloud Regional Control Plane.

VMware has announced new advancements for VMware Cloud, the industry-first multi-cloud computing infrastructure.

"The FGIIC supports local industry and provides rapid access to enterprise cybersecurity technologies so organisations can design, develop, and deliver innovative solutions for government and supporting industries.”

Three overarching trends to drive organisations to explore emerging technologies such as non-fungible tokens (NFT), sovereign cloud, AI and composable networks.

The Intellicentre 5 Bunker (IC5) is critical infrastructure designed to support Australia’s data sovereignty, national cyber security and digital skills development, according to a statement from Macquarie.

Macquarie Data Centres and Macquarie Government are set to launch a new Government-certified, highly secure data centre facility in Canberra.

We spoke to Acronis co-founder and technology president Stas Protassov to discuss these announcements.

"We need a profoundly different approach to individual data rights and protection - one that recognises collective identities."

The platform, which utilises Catalyst Cloud’s hosting infrastructure and amazee.io’s open source hosting platform called Lagoon, based on Kubernetes.