The new facilities will be rolled out over the next three years in order to offer colocation and network services in presently underserved areas. Virtutel through its subsidiary VirtuDC, will deploy the first of these facilities in Albury, New South Wales, followed by more in regional cities across Australia. This will support Virtutel’s commitment to establishing a mesh of interconnected carrier-neutral data centres covering the country – the company’s strategy being to host IT infrastructure at the edge, thus lowering latency for existing applications and providing a platform for emerging technologies like Internet Of Things (IOT) and autonomous vehicles.
“We selected Flexenclosure for their deep experience in deploying prefabricated data centres in very challenging environments and their flexibility in making sure that the ultimate design was exactly what we wanted” said David Allen, Managing Director, Virtutel.
Flexenclosure’s prefabricated eCentre data centres will be custom-designed and Uptime Institute Tier III certified. The base design will be standardised for all the new facilities, bringing significant operational efficiency benefits to Virtutel, particularly in the areas of power, cooling, UPS and ongoing management and maintenance. Future expansion will be possible both horizontally and vertically and they will have ‘dark site’ functionality where required – unmanned and remotely managed from a central network operations centre. Flexenclosure will also be providing ongoing data centre support services to Virtutel.
Image: Recently completed award-winning Tigo Business Paraguay eCentre data centre by Flexenclosure
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