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• Digital Realty Trust works towards NABERS certification

  Digital Realty Trust is working to get its Sydney and Melbourne data centres certified to meet the National Australian Built Environment Rating System (NABERS) for data centres rating.

• Dell expands data centre services with Digital Realty hook-up

  Dell has taken space in two Digital Realty data centres – Sydney and Melbourne – as it expands its cloud service offerings for customers.

• Digital Realty Trust data centres go green

  Digital Realty Trust has made its Melbourne and Sydney data centres green with LEED ratings from the United States Green Building Council (UGSBC).

• Bernard Geoghegan takes Digital Realty Trust APAC reins

  Digital Realty Trust's Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) managing director, Bernard Geoghegan, has taken over the Asia Pacific portfolio after former APAC regional head Kris Kumar resigned for personal reasons.

• Canberra Data Centres and Digital Realty sign hosting deal

  Canberra Data Centres (CDC) has rented rack space at Digital Realty’s Tier III certified Sydney and Melbourne data centres to serve CDC’s government clients in these cities.

• In pictures: Digital Realty’s Melbourne II data centre officially opens

  Digital Realty Trust CEO Michael Foust and Victorian Minister for Technology Gordon Rich-Phillips were on hand to open the data centre operator’s second Tier III facility in Melbourne at Deer Park. The 8690 square metre data centre has four 1440 kW data halls. It forms part of the company’s $150 million investment in Victoria.

• Some Aussie data centre operators not measuring power usage: survey

  Thirty-nine per cent out of 100 Australian data centre employees surveyed by Campos Research & Analysis indicated that they were not measuring power usage in their facility.

• New datacentre survey shows mediocre results for energy efficiency

  A new survey suggests that large datacentres might be less energy efficient than was previously thought.

• Data centre expansions on the cards for 2013: survey

  Increased security and disaster recovery have been cited as the top reasons for data centre expansion in 2013, according to a Campos Research & Analysis survey commissioned by Digital Realty.
  

• NAB to save $22 million with data centre consolidation program

  National Australia Bank (NAB) has forecast operational cost reductions of $22 million over seven years as it consolidates 20 data centres and computer rooms down to two facilities in Melbourne.

• In pictures: Inside Digital Realty Trust’s Sydney data centre

  NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell was on hand to turn the soil at Digital Realty Trust’s data centre in Erskine Park, Sydney. Commissioned in November last year, the 8,020 square metre facility comprises of four 1440 kilowatt turn-key flex performance optimised data centres (PODs).
  

• Digital Realty Trust’s Sydney data centre open for business

  Global data centre provider, Digital Realty Trust, has officially taken the covers off the first phase of its Sydney facility in Erskine Park.

• Digital Realty Trust eyes up data centre acquisitions

  US data centre provider, Digital Realty Trust, has announced plans to launch in the Australian market with construction to shortly begin on a Sydney data centre -- the first of potentially many to come in the Asia Pacific region, according to its regional head.
  

• Data centers turn to outsourcing to meet capacity needs

  More large companies are turning to collocation providers to relieve capacity constraints in their data centers, as a way to avoid the high cost of building their own new brick-and-mortar facilities, two studies suggest.