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NSW datacentre consolidation draws widespread interest
By siliconindia
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Friday, 15 January 2010, 18:52 IST
Bangalore: Around 17 providers from a range of industries have lined up with expressions of interest to manage the NSW Government's whole-of-government datacenter requirements, reports ARN.
The Expressions of Interest process, which was announced in October 2009 and closed on December 1, will see the NSW Government consolidate it datacenter facilities from 130 to just two. The list of prospective tenderers includes outsourcing and integration agencies, CSC, Fujitsu and Datacom, along with specialized datacenter providers, Equinix, Canberra Data Centres, Enterprise Data Corporation and Global Switch Property. Several telecom operators, property groups and IT vendors have also applied.
According to tender documents, the state government aims to reduce operational costs while improving datacenter security, utilization, reliability and environmental efficiency. Lead agencies for the tender are the Department of Education and the Department of Health.
The project includes provisioning, operation and maintenance of two robust and scalable datacenters to cater to up to 3MW of the government's initial ICT load. It covers Central West, Far West, Hunter, Illawarra, Mid North Coast, Murray, Murrumbidgee, Northern, North Western, Richmond Tweed, South Eastern and Sydney.
The tender has been applauded by industry pundits, who claim that it demonstrates the government's clear and strategic long-term ICT agenda. It follows a review of 55 datacenter facilities across 32 agencies back in 2008.
