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Australia : Outsourcing HP lights Up $200M Data Centre
HEWLETT-PACKARD has launched its bid for the regional cloud computing market with the opening of a $200 million data centre in Western Sydney.
Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy opened the HP facility named Aurora at Eastern Creek, 18 months after the company was granted construction approval at the site.
Senator Conroy wasted no time in linking the $200m investment to the federal government’s $36 billion National Broadband Network investment.
“The economy cannot gain the maximum benefits from cloud computing without super-fast internet connections, fast download connections and critically upload speeds to revolutionise access to the cloud.
“For the small business sector this infrastructure needs to be delivered far beyond the CBDs and business parks of our capital cities and this is where the universal, reliable high speed broadband delivered by the NBN is critical,” Senator Conroy said.
Hewelett-Packard has previously said that the NBN is not intrinsic to the success of the facility.
Senator Conroy declined to comment on industry concerns that Labor’s carbon tax could impact negatively on investment in data centre facilities by other companies operating in the region.
HP’s new facility was being built as part of a $US1 billion renewal of its global services infrastructure. It replaces several smaller facilities operated by HP in Australia that are reaching the end of their leases.
The company declined to reveal how many staff would be employed at the new site. Earlier this year, the company said that during the peak of its construction the data centre would employ 200 people.
HP’s South Pacific managing director today said that the $200m investment was only a starting point.The facility which has data centre floor equivalent to 48 tennis courts space is currently operating at around a fifth of its capacity with its three launch clients, Origin Energy, Downer and Elders Australia.The company declined to comment on when it would reach capacity.
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