Equinix anchors high capacity fiber between Australia and US
Equinix has announced that the Southern Cross Cable Network (SCCN) now connects directly between its data centres in Los Angeles, Silicon Valley and Sydney.
Equinix has announced that the Southern Cross Cable Network (SCCN) now connects directly between its data centres in Los Angeles, Silicon Valley and Sydney.
Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) has signed a multi-million dollar agreement to move its Asia Pacific customer planning and relationship management systems to IBM's pay-per-use cloud.
IBM has opened a new SoftLayer cloud centre in Sydney, as part of a $1.2 billion investment to build 15 new data centres around the world. This follows the launch of a similar centre in Melbourne in August last year.
SoftLayer will launch its first Australian data centre next month in Melbourne, the cloud provider and its parent IBM have announced.
IBM on Friday said it would spend US$1.2 billion to build 15 new data centres worldwide to deliver cloud services to businesses.
IBM has signed an agreement to acquire SoftLayer Technologies, as it looks to accelerate the build-out of its public cloud infrastructure. The company is also forming a services division to back up the push.
SoftLayer aims to let customers pay for only what they need with a new infrastructure-as-a-service pricing model it calls Build Your Own Cloud.