Canberra Data Centre - Government Hosting
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Canberra’s Data Centre Power Challenge

Macquarie Hosting believes the most significant infrastructure issue facing Canberra IT executives is data centre power reliability and efficiency.

As little as five years ago, the average power requirement was 1kW to 3kW per rack. Today, driven by the advent of consolidation, virtualisation and the growth of new blade servers it's not uncommon for a typical rack to consume 5kW to 7kW. In some instances, a high-density blade server implementation can draw 20kW to 30kW per rack.

Not only do higher density racks have to be reliably powered, but also the consolidation of this increased power into a smaller footprint brings significant challenges in dealing with the resultant heat produced. In an inefficiently designed or sub-scale data centre, for every watt of power used by IT equipment, it takes another watt and more to remove the resultant waste heat.

The criticality of business applications, rising power costs and the high likelihood of further carbon legislation, means that IT managers must quickly address the reliability and efficiency of their power and cooling infrastructure. Failure to do so will leave them exposed to serious service disruptions and significantly increased delivery costs.

Worldwide there is a shortage of data centre space capable of handling higher density computing. Data centre space capable of supporting 500 to 800 watts per square meter is commonplace, to truly future proof the modern data centre must be capable of supporting at least 1,500 watts per square meter of IT power density.

Canberra Data Centre executives face two challenges: a distinct lack of available data centre space capable of reliably supporting at least 1,500 watts per square meter and exposure to a single grid, zero redundancy power supply.

Macquarie Hosting is Constructing the Solution, a Purpose Built Canberra Data Centre – Intellicentre 2, specifically for Government Hosting.

Our Canberra Data Centre – A new standard

Macquarie Hosting has a long and successful history of servicing Federal Government and commercial clients. In order to meet the needs of its Canberra clients, Macquarie Hosting is committed to constructing and operating Intellicentre 2.

Our aim is to not just build a data centre in Canberra, but to set a new Australian standard for security, reliability, accreditation and power efficiency. We are using our knowledge and experience to build a data centre that will reduce CO2 emissions by 60% to 70% from today’s solutions.

Intellicentre 2 - Data Centre Highlights

• Supporting 2,000 watts per square meter (and greater) IT power density.
• World’s best practice Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) target of 1.35.
• Fully redundant and efficient power and cooling, via an on-site cogeneration – Combined Heat and Power Energy Centre.
• Tier 3 data centre design meeting A/NZ AS 2834 & TIA 942 standards – targeting 99.999% uptime.
• Fully compliant with ASIO T4 physical security requirements.
• DSD accreditation to ‘Highly Protected’ and ‘Restricted’ level of classification.
• Geographically dispersed business continuity assurance via our Sydney Intellicentre 1.
• 24 x 7 secure client access.
• Multi-carrier access including ICON Data Connection.
• Fully ‘cleared’ staff.

Owned and managed by an organisation with the expertise and confidence to offer meaningful service level guarantees for government hosting.

Contact us for more information about using the Macquarie Telecom Canberra Data Centre, the Intellicentre 2.