"On another note, did anyone happen to read the ASPI report on data centres? Seems as if competitors are complaining CDC Data Centres is getting too much business. It's believed to be funded by Macquarie Telecom, Australian Data Centres and NEXTDC"
LINK: Gist of it in this ITWire article.From the AFR article:
"The battle over data centres comes as there is a massive shift of federal government data and services to external cloud-based operations. Gartner has estimated governments across the country will spend around $400 million on data centre contracts with growth of 7.4 per cent this financial year."
Probably enough to round for everyone, but being a big MAQ holder I wouldn't mind it being more equally spread.
From the AFR article:
"The company in question, Canberra Data Centres, was not named in the report, but can be identified in public information as having secured $620 million of the $779 million current data centre contracts with federal agencies. The next largest providers by value were $32 million (4 per cent), $28 million (3.6 per cent) and $14 million (1.7 per cent)."
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