Thursday 14 June 2012

Australia's distant cloud

This week's Twisted Wire looks at the growth of the datacentre industry in Australia, and asks: is it enough?

All of this may be good news for datacentre providers. Right now, there is more than $2 billion invested in building new centres. The downside for consumers is the relatively high cost of local cloud hosting — electricity is expensive, and we don't have the economies of scale enjoyed in larger markets. There's also a local competitor who is greener, cheaper and well connected, and situated just over the Tasman.

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