Pacnet launches Sydney Data Centre

Pacnet announced the launch of its Sydney Data Centre, its latest investment into Australia that is designed to meet the rapidly growing hosting and co-location demands of Australian businesses.

“Australia is one of our largest markets where we are seeing a huge demand for advanced IT solutions such as cloud computing services and disaster recovery, and also a growing amount of digital content being generated,” said Bill Barney, Chief Executive Officer of Pacnet.

“This is fuelling a growing demand for robust, high-grade data centre infrastructure, which we are delivering through our new Sydney Data Centre, and across the region through our recently launched Data Landing Stations in Hong Kong and Singapore.”

According to Frost & Sullivan, the demand for data centre services in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) is forecast to see a compound annual growth rate of 13.9% from US$442.3m in 2009 to US$1.1b in 2016. The research firm also noted in a report that in 2009, capacity utilisation in most data centres in ANZ was between 80-90%.