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"Red Cloud chief executive Carl Woodbridge said the data centre is expected to be completed by September 2017, and will cost $40 million to construct.

“We will be building our data centre to comply with and be accredited by The Uptime Institute to tier-3 standard, enabling Tasmanian ICT companies to access the best supporting infrastructure,” said Woodbridge."

Tasmania to get its first tier-3 data centre Red Cloud to open Hobart facility in September 2017.

"The Red Cloud data centre will be our first Tier-3 data centre - it will have military-grade security modules as well as energy-saving technologies.

This will give the state a highly resilient facility for on-island data and we expect it to form part of the Tasmanian Cloud alongside existing providers TasmaNet and TasNetworks.

This success is part of a coordinated vision for IT in Tasmania that stretches from coding in primary schools through to support for IT career planning and work experience."

$40m Red Cloud data centre to create jobs Perth-based data centre operator Red Cloud is proceeding with plans for a $40 million data centre in Tasmania having finalised the purchase of 7000 sqm in the Spark Business Centre at Cambridge.

Tasmania’s Information Technology and Innovation Minister Michael Ferguson spoke on the news: “The Red Cloud data center will be our first Tier III data center. It will have military-grade security modules as well as energy-saving technologies

“This will give the state a highly resilient facility for on-island data and we expect it to form part of the Tasmanian cloud.”

Tasmanian data center gets a step closer The devil is in the details

Red Cloud announced in October plans to expand, citing the state's cool climate as a good location for its "hotel for computers".

The data storage company is in the final stages of purchasing a 7,000-square-metre site on Kennedy Drive at Cambridge in Hobart.

Red Cloud CEO Carl Woodbridge said it would create 80 jobs during the construction process and 17 ongoing jobs.

Cloud company locks in Tasmanian site for high-grade data centre A West Australian company has locked in a site for its $40 million data centre in Tasmania.

“SPARK Business Hub (Cambridge, Tasmania) was able to satisfy all of our selection criteria including our power, high speed data requirements as well as our specific requirement for a redundant power feed to the site.”

It is proposed that the site will house the state’s first Internationally Accredited Uptime Institute Tier III data centre, as part of Minister for Information Technology and Innovation Michael Ferguson’s plan to grow the state’s ICT industry.

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Red Cloud’s technology partner Cannon Technologies has been honoured with the Frost and Sullivan “Award for best in Europe, Modular Data Center Facilities”.

Red Cloud's technology partner receives another international award » Red Cloud | Virtually Anywhere Red Cloud’s technology partner Cannon Technologies has been honoured with the Frost and Sullivan “Award for best in Europe, Modular Data Center Facilities”. The

"Data centre start-up Red Cloud will bring its first facility online in Perth’s southern suburb of Bibra Lake in September, with an initial capacity of 120 racks and 2MW of power.

Bibra Lake is Uptime Institute Tier 3 certified, Red Cloud said. The company also plans to pursue a NABERS rating, however the scheme requires the facility to have been operating for at least a year."

Read more: http://www.itnews.com.au/news/red-cloud-readies-bibra-lake-data-centre-429844

Red Cloud readies Bibra Lake data centre - ITnews.com.au Long-term strategy to bring capacity to the regions.

"Brand new data centre will significantly boost the state’s capability to provide ICT services.” CEO Carl Woodbridge http://bit.ly/RCVA-Tier-3

Red Cloud Data Centre achieves global design accreditation » Red Cloud | Virtually Anywhere Perth based data centre services company Red Cloud Ltd has achieved global accreditation of Tier III Design classification from the Uptime Institute for its first centre, RCWA1 ‘The Garry Henley Data Centre’ in Bibra Lake.

Red Cloud's enabling technology partner, Cannon Technologies, has been recognised with the 2015 European modular data centre company of the year award. Red Cloud CEO Carl Woodbridge accepted the award on their behalf in Sydney.

2015 European modular data centre company of the year award Frost & Sullivan have recognised Red Cloud’s enabling technology partner Cannon Technologies with the 2015 European modular data centre company of the year award. Red Cloud’s Chief Executive Officer Carl Woodbridge accepted the award at the Hilton, Sydney on behalf of Cannon Technologies on Thursday…

Red Cloud invites interest from local suppliers for the Tasmanian date centre project. Click to see full list of key goods and services that may be provided http://bit.ly/1I75Etp

Tasmanian data centre project – Supplier opportunities » Red Cloud | Virtually Anywhere Red Cloud invites interest from local suppliers for the Tasmanian date centre project.

They say you can only move as fast as your slowest man. So what’s the slowest moving part of your IT stack? Read more http://bit.ly/1QfxLsF

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"Red Cloud has been on an expansion drive across Australia with more than ten data center parks, based on modular technology from UK-based Cannon, well known for its rugged containers."

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