Start-up data centre company, Tier5, launched a multi-million dollar facility in Adelaide which is the first centre in the world to utilise Dells’ third generation data centre technology, MDC.
The site, situated in a building which formerly housed the Mitsubishi manufacturing plant, provides 4000 square metres of data centre space which will be custom built as client demand requires.
This approach of building to specification was possible due to Dells latest modular data centre configuration which means a more efficient and flexible set-up, Tier5 CEO Peter Wildy told ARN.
“We wanted to build a facility that could have a tier 2, 3 or 4 module next to each other.
“Scability was important to us and we didn’t want to be spending hundreds of millions of dollars up front, we wanted to grow it and scale out as we needed”.
The new Dell offering consisted of cooling and power modules that snap together in a modular configuration.
Dell Australia & New Zealand MD, Joe Kremer, said the new product was launched after Dell identified a lack of capacity in the data centre market.
“Australia is experiencing a crisis with regard to data centre capacity. Billions are being spent at fever pitch as government and corporate organisations race to develop new facilities as older data centres run out of power and space and present an increasing drag on the environment and our valuable resources”.
Tier5 envisages that MDC will save its customers about $8 million a year in power costs.
The company plans to roll-out multi-tenant data centre facilities in other capital cities after the Adelaide launch, where it has demonstrated a need for new data centre facilities.
Tier5 founder, Marty Gauvin, told The Australian that he estimated the state’s data centre expenditure was $50 million a year.
“We think the data centre market in South Australia is worth about $50m a year but the interesting thing is we would actually see our facility as probably taking half of its revenue out of that demand and half of its revenue out of demand out of state”.
Tier5 would operate the facility as both owner/manager and wholesaler of space - dealing directly with clients requiring one megawatt or more, while smaller clients would go through a third party supplier.
The capacity for the facility was 8 megawatt and if all customers take-up Tier 3 configurations, the facility will cost $100 million to build.
It is understood that organisations that have shown interest in the facility include the Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Flinders University, Adelaide University, South Australia Health, IAG and Adelaide University.
Strategies and solutions for managing both in-house data centres and co-location environments will be shared at CeBIT Australia’s Future-Proofing your Data Centre 2011 in February.
The program will showcase case studies about cost-effective and innovative data centre management and reveal the latest technology and solutions currently available.
The event takes place 14 – 15 February in Sydney. More information at www.cebit.com.au/datacentres.
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