Microsoft to build Australian cloud computing Centres
Microsoft Corp is
expanding its services for hosting and processing online data in Australia with
the establishment of two new "cloud" computing data centres in the
country. The world's biggest software company said on Tuesday it was expanding
its Windows Azure business to include a major new region in Australia.
Data centres, renting
out technology resources such as computing power and storage, will be
established in the states of New South Wales and Victoria. "These two
locations will be geo-redundant, offering our customers the ability to back up
their data across two separate locations, both within Australia," Toby
Bowers, Microsoft Australia's Server & Tools Group Lead said on company's
blog site. "We know that providing disaster recovery, while ensuring data
sovereignty goals are met, is critical to many of our customers."
Such cloud computing,
pioneered by Amazon.com Inc, is a fast-growing business for Microsoft and has
attracted other big tech names including Google Inc. Microsoft claims more than
200,000 Windows Azure customers, but the company does not break out the revenue
from it.
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